I like it the best but it does look like they pulled it out of a catalogue of 100s of bridges they have already designed, for when competitions require a response lol

don't forget about the wooden pole, installed in 2014

Curious why Canadian Customs is so much smaller, is that because so much more trade is US bound?

Interesting article about New York https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-office-real-estate-rechler-rxr-project-kodak.html

no, it's just Toronto Hydro incompetence/slowness. A little further west the sidewalk still hasn't been replaced in front of the Westbeach condos either which I assume is part of the same project. But my point is that I don't think any wooden hydro poles including the ones around King/Princess...

those are absolutely not temporary, unless you define temporary as 50+ years. Toronto Hydro has been putting those up all over Leslieville/Beaches for the past few years to replace existing wood and concrete poles which then take years to remove. At Queen and Coxwell they installed poles into...

There's the 72B Pape bus which is like a secret express service from Queens Quay up to Queen/Pape then slightly slower onwards to Pape station

when I worked for TD in the TD tower many years ago there was an employee cafeteria in the Path, right where the lower level of Bymark is located now.

reminds me of this beauty (not) at Woodbine and Gerrard

from FCP

Ukraine

new series in the Star https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2022/10/01/overflowing-garbage-broken-transit-decrepit-ferries-toronto-cant-we-do-better.html

what's infuriating is when streetscapes are redone and end up looking top notch we end up with things like this, some random wooden hydro pole (8 years and counting) or the "temporary barriers" (3 years and counting). They just don't seem to be on anyone's radar to resolve, or is the only answer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve

for every one of those, there's one of these

why would there be though, the issue of shabby public realm isn't even on the radar of 99% of the population. When have you ever seen a news article about the topic, or even a discussion on any Toronto social media threads? heck, even on urbantoronto it's buried in the obscure Politics...

not to mention the street level public realm which is absolutely embarrassing, I was out and about in the downtown core for the first time in a couple of years recently and Adelaide, Richmond, King, John, Peter, Bremner, Wellington etc. all look like absolute trash. This for a city that thinks...

saw this on the reddit Toronto thread, new outage reporting site with status of all streetlights https://www.torontohydro.com/streetlight-map

sorry, i was referring to the public realm in general and the initial "great streets" post, not street patios specifically.