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With London’s downtown flex street roughly half completed, the question for the new year is how to use it.

The rebuilt $16-million stretch of Dundas Street, being turned into a pedestrian-friendly zone able to be closed to traffic for street events, will run from Ridout to Wellington streets.

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Crews scrambled toward the end of the year to complete the first phase, from Ridout to Richmond Street, which included a lot of underground work.

Now the city is looking to business owners, civic groups and ordinary Londoners to help define how the street, called Dundas Place, will be used — how to put the flex in the flex street, said pointperson Jim Yanchula, city hall’s project envoy to the Dundas Street merchants during the construction phase.

“The city’s not in the business of having a schedule of events, and is looking to the community,” Yanchula said. “It’s going to work best if the community generates (enthusiasm) and falls in love with Dundas Place.”