11th is a very important street for connectivity between north and south of the rail lines.
Remove 11th and it’s an eleven block gap (14th-1st) to get on to 9th Avenue from Beltline.
11th is also an import link to 5th avenue from Scarboro/Sunalta/Beltline. Because 14th St has such limited connections to 9th/6th/5th/Memorial, take away 11th St. and you force all of that traffic further through Beltline to 8th and 4th.
These suggestions are how you end up with Toronto style gridlock which isn’t pleasant for residents of the neighbourhood.
No one is going to play at a sunken playground between rail lines and a five lane 9th Avenue anyways.
Now imagine the Staples lot gets redeveloped to WVT level residences. By car, you can only get home from the west on Bow Trail.
