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Im so pissed another summer is here...and this fountain is not working...If I call 311 will I get any answer from the city?
 
If Ontario is on better economic footing and largely deficit free by 2018, it would be a nice legacy project for the Liberals to announce some changes for Queen's Park and environs. Perhaps even taking/buying parts of University Avenue (and Queen's Park itself) from the city to make it a "provincial park" and a more befitting entrance for a capital city and its legislature. Better lighting and connections with U of T could also be part of this.
 
JasonParis said:
If Ontario is on better economic footing and largely deficit free by 2018, it would be a nice legacy project for the Liberals to announce some changes for Queen's Park and environs. Perhaps even taking/buying parts of University Avenue (and Queen's Park itself) from the city to make it a "provincial park" and a more befitting entrance for a capital city and its legislature. Better lighting and connections with U of T could also be part of this.
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That would be good. University Avenue is looking increasingly dated. Its transformation into a grand boulevard was impressive in the 1960s, but today the concrete sidewalks and stick trees in box planters seem unimpressive and banal. It's unfortunate to see asphalt driveways and parking in front of both the provincial legislature and Parliament in Ottawa. These legislative buildings are our great landmarks as a nation, and they deserve better treatment than such provincial banality.
 
FINALLY !!! Drove by tonight and fountain was working. From what I could see they added lighting fixture as well...as it was all lit up in different colours.
 
There's a photo of the completed fountain in that Facebook album. The fountains are great. The pool could have been better with some sort of finish besides ordinary grey concrete. The odd thing is that the pool was blue in the photo of the fountain when it was working. But in the photo taken just before demolition work began, it had 1960s tiles with faint yellow and blue squares.
 
junctionist said:
There's a photo of the completed fountain in that Facebook album. The fountains are great. The pool could have been better with some sort of finish besides ordinary grey concrete. The odd thing is that the pool was blue in the photo of the fountain when it was working. But in the photo taken just before demolition work began, it had 1960s tiles with faint yellow and blue squares.
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Yeah I was wondering about that too - and it's not very clear whether they have reclad the pool with tiles. One would think they have to since it is a heritage fountain.

AoD
 
JKDM said:
How do you know that?
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It's fairly basic Toronto history. U of T ran that side as a toll road from Queen Street up to U of T. There were gates across that prevented you from using the road unless you paid. Eventually, the city built the northbound lanes as a public street. Then later, leased the U of T property on a 999 year lease to make University Avenue. Later still, the whole thing was pushed South of Queen as part of the never completed Beaux-Arts plan to rebuild the city.
 
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