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Originally Posted by J.OT13
With the streets becoming less hostile thanks to the reduction of bus traffic and the widening of sidewalks, it might also encourage more restaurants and cafés at the base of office towers and they might open up to the sidewalks with terraces.
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Many of those buildings are so "hardened" at street level, that it's very difficult to convert them to such uses. Many building owners are also dead-set against de-hardening.
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The point is, wider sidewalks is not a magical solution for downtown, but it can't hurt. It's one more thing that could help with a revitalisation.
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It can't hurt, no, but without changes to existing buildings, and stronger political will to get better quality new and replacement architecture, it's not going to help, not on its own.
But Ottawa has no such political will, and actually seems to embrace and encourage garbitechture. What a town.
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