Developer: City of Toronto, Metrolinx
  
Address: 75 Front St W, Toronto, Canada
Category: Commercial (Retail), Institutional, Transit
Status: ConstructionCrane(s): 2
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I like the idea of planters more than the practical reality; unfortunately I know from living in a building with planter boxes out front that nice flowers often get pulled out and stolen and the boxes end up filled with trash and cigarette butts. 😂 But surely these can have some nice designs painted on them!
 
I walked over to look today at lunch. They put one down right in the middle of the heaviest traffic flow spot at the stairs into the York concourse. The colour also looks very weird in the sun. The blocks are quite yellow, and it looked very different from mburr's photos from earlier.

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I also tried Shake Shack for the first time. Pretty decent burger! The cherry peppers were a great addition. Overpriced, but what isn't these days?
 
I walked over to look today at lunch. They put one down right in the middle of the heaviest traffic flow spot at the stairs into the York concourse.

And you took a picture for UT, which you'll be posting shortly, right?
 
I walked over to look today at lunch. They put one down right in the middle of the heaviest traffic flow spot at the stairs into the York concourse. The colour also looks very weird in the sun. The blocks are quite yellow, and it looked very different from mburr's photos from earlier.

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I also tried Shake Shack for the first time. Pretty decent burger! The cherry peppers were a great addition. Overpriced, but what isn't these days?
the street corners should really have metal bollards instead

I also agree the colour does not look fantastic
 
How deep do bollards need to be? There is mech rooms and a PATH corridor right underneath the spot where those concrete blocks (marked in red) were placed:

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I will have to go down later this week and see for myself, but this certainly doesn’t look like much of an improvement over the Jersey barriers.

Leave it to the city to screw things up further.
Yes, they are clearly an expensive FAIL. MAYBE if they had bought the obviously more expensive end of the range rather than the basic model it MIGHT have been better but the whole thing is an example of civic waste in my opinion. A project that took 6 years to be done, made few if any improvements and used a non-Canadian supplier of what are really just rectangular Jersey Barriers! Hard to believe we have no money- or maybe THIS kind of thing explains that!
 
How deep do bollards need to be? There is mech rooms and a PATH corridor right underneath the spot where those concrete blocks (marked in red) were placed:

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where is the curb outline on this diagram?

would bollard here right along the curb of the road be over anything underground?

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also where the current blocks are placed (yellow) they seem to offer no protection for the people waiting to cross at this corner

anyway, perhaps I should wait until I see the final product to judge
 
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I made the big time!

 

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