[interchange42]

Ustinov said Toronto is New York City run by the Swiss

Right, so who said the other one then? If one Googles it, the results are me, back in 2007, wondering the same thing in the Aura thread(!), and an UTNE Reader article from March/April 2003 crediting it to "some wags". It seems the internet can forget.

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[DarkSideDenizen]

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

 

[alexb805]

After multiple delays we finally got our Final occupancy day to the new condos. It will be Monday next week January 27. We are moving to the Podium 2nd floor and I assume that is the first occupancy day.

Image

of the lobby I took Jan 5 is attached

 

[innsertnamehere]

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

 

[Transportfan]

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It's stupid the way York Region puts a "County Road 55" shield on the street sign, when they never did before. Right in VMC to boot with the subway. Why would they regress to rural municipality stuff?

Regional municipality governments are urbanity (and even suburbanity) killers. No wonder Mississauga wants to leave Peel!

 

[interchange42]

It's stupid the way York Region puts a "County Road 55" shield on the street sign, when they never did before. Right in VMC to boot with the subway. Why would they regress to rural municipality stuff?

Regional municipality governments are urbanity (and even suburbanity) killers. No wonder Mississauga wants to leave Peel!

The regional governments slap those on the signs because they want residents to know something of what their tax dollars that go to the region pay for. Seriously. It's not an sign endemic to rural character, it is spread pretty much everywhere in the province other than Toronto itself, and the Regional Road # signs are hardly the bane of suburban existence; pretty much everything else is though.

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[Transportfan]

The regional governments slap those on the signs because they want residents to know something of what their tax dollars that go to the region pay for. Seriously. It's not an sign endemic to rural character, it is spread pretty much everywhere in the province other than Toronto itself, and the Regional Road # signs are hardly the bane of suburban existence; pretty much everything else is though.

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Metro Toronto roads didn't have numbers.

 

[interchange42]

Exactly… but still, why care about these signs popping up? On subway vehicles, every government agency that pours money into them labels them up by the drivers cabs; they usually want you to know where your tax dollars go, they want credit.

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[junctionist]

Metro Toronto roads didn't have numbers.

Back in those days, though, downtown streets had signs indicating the routes of provincial highways through the city. Yonge Street, for instance, was Highway 11. It's hard to find photos of the signs, but you can see Highway 11 signs in this photo from the 1960s on the right-hand side.

 

[innsertnamehere]

There are still a few highway 2 signs in Kingston Road.

 

[Transportfan]

I was referring to Metro (Regional) roads not having numbers. Metro didn't feel the need to take credit for maintaining them.

That's not the same thing as highways passing through cities.

 

[Transportfan]

And this highway-type guide signage can't be explained by wanting people to know who funded them either: