More on St. Clair - the sidewalk recedes

Another picture from my walking tour yesterday.
This shows a section where the sidewalk has been pushed back by the streetcar requirements. Other than relatively short queueing lanes at Yonge and at Bathurst, all the sidewalk cuts I saw were to accomodate the new wider platforms.

If we're going to be stuck with this beast, the wider platforms are a requirement. Even the new platforms aren't that wide.

Streetcar fanatic Steve Munro blames the sidewalk cuts in the ever-evil road engineers. However, this isn't what this gal found.

On the section East of Bathurst, the sidewalk gets relatively little use. As I explained yesterday, the stretch is largely devoid of retail. Now if any section of the sidewalk West of Bathurst gets treatment similar to what you see in the picture, it may well be the death sentence for that retail strip.