While reducing car traffic on King would be consistent with proven best practice in the rest of the world, from Seville to Bordeaux to Sydney,we do have to remember that this is Toronto, and we do things differently here.  Our suburban majority Council, and I guess the people who elect them, seem to believe that the Golden Mile circa 1955 is the urban form to which we should aspire.   They're more likely to remove streetcars from King and narrow the sidewalks than do anything this sensible.