Queen Street is now closed to all traffic from just east of Bay Street to Yonge Street and again between Yonge and Victoria Streets…. for about four and a half years (any bets on 5 years? or more?). The new Ontario Line subway is being built here. There will be 4 stops along Queen – Moss Park which is between Sherbourne and Parliament, then Yonge, Osgoode, and finally a stop at Spadina & Queen before the line heads south to King Street and then the Exhibition.
Because of the existing infrastructure in the area there wasn’t much room for construction, hence the takeover of the street. 501 Queen streetcars and buses are diverting along Richmond and Adelaide streets.
It all makes for a complicated mess for pedestrians.
below: The first warning sign of changes ahead, a little orange sign that says that the sidewalk on the north side of Queen Street is closed between Victoria and Yonge.
below: Queen and Victoria, looking west towards the construction
below: Looking south on Victoria from Queen
below: Ontario Line hoardings.
below: Northeast corner of Yonge & Queen
below: Looking east from Yonge
below: Westward view past concrete barriers and wobbly green and metal fencing
below: Crossing Queen Street
below: From the Eaton Centre looking east past Yonge Street.
below: Entrance to the Queen subway station
below: A break in the construction zone for pedestrians.
below: Barricade across the sidewalk on the south side, by the Eaton Centre
below: Queen Street is closed in front of Old City Hall
as I walk Toronto 
Once the line is built, it will be a great bonus for local residents, as Toronto’s subway system was shamefully underdeveloped.
True! It’s a shame that the subway wasn’t built years ago before the area was so heavily developed.
I have fellow-feeling, Mary: I live near Broadway Ave. here, which is currently in turmoil as they tunnel for a new subway line…