allabootmatt
Senior Member
So I am back in town for a visit, and had to go up to Forest Hill Village today to run an errand.
Having not been in that part of the city in about a year, I couldn't believe the sloppiness of the job on St Clair--pretty much all the way from Yonge to St Clair West station.
From Yonge to about Avenue, there are two complete sets of hydro/lighting poles up--the new ones and the old, which are showing no signs of impending removal. Most incredible, the rough-hewn pieces of timber holding up traffic lights at the Yonge and Avenue intersections are STILL there.
Meanwhile, further west, those fancy new luminaires have just been bolted onto old timber hydro poles, with a few new wooden poles, serving no apparent purpose, thrown in for good measure.
And then there's the lack of shelters, but we've heard that story.
I found the whole experience of the street astonishing--while I have no problem with the ROW concept, the implementation here of everything but the actual streetcar track has been utterly botched. What gives? Since the City is planning on rolling out things like this all over town, doesn't it have every incentive to make this one a non-disaster aesthetically?
I would love to know if anyone on the board who lives in the area knows anything about when, if ever, some of these problems are going to be corrected. If they aren't, I would be happy to assist in a letter-writing campaign to Michael Walker and the 'Fixer' in The Star.
Having not been in that part of the city in about a year, I couldn't believe the sloppiness of the job on St Clair--pretty much all the way from Yonge to St Clair West station.
From Yonge to about Avenue, there are two complete sets of hydro/lighting poles up--the new ones and the old, which are showing no signs of impending removal. Most incredible, the rough-hewn pieces of timber holding up traffic lights at the Yonge and Avenue intersections are STILL there.
Meanwhile, further west, those fancy new luminaires have just been bolted onto old timber hydro poles, with a few new wooden poles, serving no apparent purpose, thrown in for good measure.
And then there's the lack of shelters, but we've heard that story.
I found the whole experience of the street astonishing--while I have no problem with the ROW concept, the implementation here of everything but the actual streetcar track has been utterly botched. What gives? Since the City is planning on rolling out things like this all over town, doesn't it have every incentive to make this one a non-disaster aesthetically?
I would love to know if anyone on the board who lives in the area knows anything about when, if ever, some of these problems are going to be corrected. If they aren't, I would be happy to assist in a letter-writing campaign to Michael Walker and the 'Fixer' in The Star.