grey
Senior Member
WTF, the nice waste containers designed for the park have been removed and replaced with these:
Hamiltonian
Active Member
How do you know if those are actually permanent? They may be temporary so don't freak the f*** out.
junctionist
Senior Member
It's possible they're temporary, but they are the standard bins for parks all over the city. The bins should be redesigned. The point of a park is to provide a pleasant and aesthetically attractive environment for residents of the city--a respite from the concrete jungle. Large utility bins that look like what you'd find in a back alley have no place in our parks.
grey
Senior Member
I'm freakin' out, man! I'm losing it! AHHHHHH
chriskayTO
Active Member
Didn't someone post in this thread last year that the City refused to empty the custom designed ones? Now that the City has taken over maintenance of the park, that wouldn't surprise me one bit. If true, it would be very disappointing, but not at all surprising.
DSC
Superstar
They are permanent. The City Parks people no longer look after collecting garbage/recycling in parks and it is done by Solid Waste Management. They insist on the plastic bins so that their trucks can pick them up and dump them directly into the trucks. Stupid, yes. It has happened in all parks in the City so if you don't like it contact your Councillor. (In David Crombie park along The esplanade, the St Lawrence Neighbourhood Association managed to get most of them removed and they put the standard black litter bins along the street frontages but that only works in "narrow' parks.)
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dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
Cawthra Park, in behind my building and a park I'm most familiar with, has the same bins in three or four locations. They've been there for a couple of years now. City bins (the tonka toy one's) took a real beating this winter, I don't think there's a single one that isn't broken in one way or another within a mile of where I live. Lost more bicycle rings this winter too, every year there are fewer and fewer of them.
I can't wait to get out to Corktown Commons in the next month or so and photograph it, it looks terrific.
I can't wait to get out to Corktown Commons in the next month or so and photograph it, it looks terrific.
DSC
Superstar
You will be out of luck. CC is closing from June 1 to end of August for Pan-Am Games.
chriskayTO
Active Member
DSC
Superstar
Not as far as I know - the PAG perimeter will be the rail line.
chriskayTO
Active Member
I figured - it was just wishful thinking on my part. Why accommodate people who actually have to, y'know, LIVE in the area?
I'm done complaining now - the legacy of the West Don Lands will far outlive any minor inconvenience to people like me out for a run.
I did notice temporary fencing being erected on the outside edge of the (still closed) "wet side" of the park - I guess this is the security fence?
T-Bor
Active Member
During the games it will be open to the athletes and games officials, but not the public. Gotta give the visitors some space to roam about outside their rooms!
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egotrippin
Senior Member
This is the sort of stuff that keeps Toronto from becoming a truly great city on every level. The amount of petty politics, lack of cooperation between various facilities and services, poor attention to detail and lack of pride in our public realm- I might sound a bit extreme, but this is one of the most pathetic things I've heard, and it seems to happen every day around here. Toronto succeeds in spite of itself, but I sometimes wonder for how long with B.S. like this.
Register123
Active Member
So when the contract with Solid Waste Management is up, refuse to give them a new contract unless they are willing to pick up from the trash bins we want. What choice would they have if they wanted the contract. Play hardball. I'm not sure why this wasn't in the initial contract.