Dundas West/ Bloor Mobility Hub +interconnected hub network (Metrolinx)

[rdaner]

So this section of the trail is almost finished. Taken 27 October.

 

[junctionist]

I like the antique-style light fixtures. We should have them in more parts of the city. But they're supposed to go on matching antique-style black poles.

We're so backwards as a city on public realm design issues. How did we end up being seemingly the only major city that can't figure out common public realm flourishes like ornamental streetlights? Ottawa and Montreal have done better in this regard.

 

[Northern Light]

I like the antique-style light fixtures. We should have them in more parts of the city. But they're supposed to go on matching antique-style black poles.

Yes they are.

Also.......note that they conflict w/the acorn-style fixtures still present on other poles.........

Acorn-style fixtures that are also on poles that don't match.

This is the correct pole for those (from University Avenue, via streetview)

What isn't very visible here, is that the correct poles have a sort of sandstone tone to them with visible stone, and of course, a proper base.

We're so backwards as a city on public realm design issues. How did we end up being seemingly the only major city that can't figure out common public realm flourishes like ornamental streetlights? Ottawa and Montreal have done better in this regard.

In part, but not wholly by selling our streetlights to Toronto Hydro as an accounting trick............to balance the budget during the Miller era..............

The City doesn't pay hydro enough to care, hydro cant' recover the costs from other parts of its regulated business...............

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That said, the City could still do much better; but it would help if they brought streetlighting back in house.

 

[vic]

I like the antique-style light fixtures. We should have them in more parts of the city. But they're supposed to go on matching antique-style black poles.

We're so backwards as a city on public realm design issues. How did we end up being seemingly the only major city that can't figure out common public realm flourishes like ornamental streetlights? Ottawa and Montreal have done better in this regard.

That goes well with the horribly mismatched eastern staircase of the Wallace bridge.

 

[smably]

That goes well with the horribly mismatched eastern staircase of the Wallace bridge.

This drives me crazy. Painting the new railings black would have been such an easy (and obvious) win, and yet...