{"id":824343,"date":"2026-07-25T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824343\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:13:09","slug":"toronto-councillors-push-for-bts-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824343\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto councillors push for BTS Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two Toronto city councillors are hoping to pass a \u201cDynamite\u201d motion in an effort to temporarily rename a Toronto street after one of the world\u2019s most popular boy bands, BTS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.toronto.ca\/council\/agenda-item.do?item=2026.MM43.74\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/secure.toronto.ca\/council\/agenda-item.do?item=2026.MM43.74\">In a motion<\/a> headed by Coun. Lily Cheng and seconded by Coun. James Pasternak, a proposal before council is calling for temporary street signs to be installed along a section of Yonge Street, from North York Boulevard to Finch Avenue, renaming it BTS Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s our way of saying \u2018You Never Walk Alone,\u2019 welcoming BTS and ARMY to Korea Town North with open arms,\u201d the agenda item summary reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCelebrating the cultural connections they have helped foster, and hoping that this visit kicks off many more memorable moments in our city with the best yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The motion also calls for the signs to be lit purple when the famous South Korean pop band makes a stop in Toronto during its BTS Arirang World Tour on Aug. 22 and 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Arirang World Tour is the popular boy band\u2019s first tour in four years, following a hiatus from band activities while all seven members fulfilled their mandatory South Korean military service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/city-of-toronto-unveils-ceremonial-taylor-swift-street-signs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/city-of-toronto-unveils-ceremonial-taylor-swift-street-signs\/\">council passed a similar motion<\/a>, introduced by former Scarborough\u2013Rouge Park city councillor Jennifer McKelvie, to temporarily rename a section of Queen Street West and John Street, between Nathan Phillips Square and Rogers Centre, Taylor Swift Way during the artist\u2019s record-breaking Eras Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto city council is expected to vote on the BTS motion at the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Toronto city councillors are hoping to pass a \u201cDynamite\u201d motion in an effort to temporarily rename a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[712,49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-824343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}