Arriving home Sunday night, I went for a walk and found this confusion…  people walking down the centre of Yonge Street?

A little Google work and tada: introducing Celebrate Yonge.

• 1 – the new pedestrian lane
• 2 – the new car lane
• 3 – the guys who painted the lanes

From August 17 to September 16 there will be planters to create a barrier between cars and pedestrians, restaurants will add patios on the sidewalk, there will be street vendors, I really like this idea.  Plus with 200 people for every 1 car, this makes sense.

BlogTO has a good map of how it will be set up.

This is the first time since the ’70s this has happened!  Click here to see photos from then.

I really like Yonge Street, I walk it a lot; the people watching is amazing.  I went through a phase in 2008 where I’d often eat at the McDonald’s on Yonge at Wellesley, click here for a really old blog post about that.

Non-Canadians: Yonge street is one of Canada’s busiest streets, and is the longest street in the world.