Market Square

[panamaniac]

I think Ottawa's experiments around Rideau Street have a lot of relevance to this discussion. What they implemented in the 80s (and then abandoned) is not necessarily what is being discussed here, but it's an interesting example of how interventions in the streetscape are complicated and don't necessarily have the effects you might initially expect.

http://urbsite.blogspot.com/2014/03/ride...ansit.html

Yeah, the bus mall on Rideau St was a mess.  Unfortunately, it's still a mess with the structures gone.  They did, however, remove one of the two pedestrian overpasses that linked the Rideau Centre with the (yawn) Hudson Bay store, so that was good.  Frieman Mall, however, which passes through the Bay to link Rideau St with the Market, is very well used.  Over in Centretown, the existing underground links between a number of buildings are very under utilized.