That runs counter to the data I’d previously seen. Business owners claimed spending went down when it was reported as going up. https://globalnews.ca/news/4390

That runs counter to the data I’d previously seen. Business owners claimed spending went down when it was reported as going up. https://globalnews.ca/news/4390635/king-street-pilot-project-ridership-reliability-data-may-june-2018/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4390635/king-street-pilot-project... Or see the city’s YoY report, page 16: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/8fb5-TS_King-Street-Annual-Dashboard_Final.pdf https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/8fb5-TS_Ki... The restaurants that suffered were belonged to the fellow I mentioned and those that aligned themselves with him. He was already a bit of a notorious blowhard. What you’re describing is what they claimed would happen, but didn’t because more people were encouraged to spend time there. Even anecdotally I certainly spend more time there after films than I otherwise did because it’s so much better to move through rather than a total blockade of cars every single day rendering it basically a non-consideration—at least on our part.