Irishmonk
Senior Member
^Those are all good! Esp. SHEET.
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The Great Beautification Thread
- Thread starter Northern Light
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renvel
Active Member
Wooden junk poles elimination.
Taking huge cost into account, I'm not talking about the whole city of Toronto.
We should concentrate on DOWNTOWN first.
Good starting point is Dundas St. W. across the street from redesigned AGO, which is REAL WORLDCLASS eyesore ...
Taking huge cost into account, I'm not talking about the whole city of Toronto.
We should concentrate on DOWNTOWN first.
Good starting point is Dundas St. W. across the street from redesigned AGO, which is REAL WORLDCLASS eyesore ...
pman
Senior Member
the wire
Renvel makes a sensible suggestion, which is to focus on burying wires on major downtown streets, but there doesn't appear to be the political will to attempt even that. For example, I contacted Kyle Rae's office a while ago to ask if the wires along Jarvis could be buried if the road-narrowing went through. That would seem to be a no-brainer, since the project would involve removing existing pavement down to the dirt level. Rae wasn't interested - and he is one of the most pro-urban, design-positive councillors.
Main streets festooned with overhead wires supported on wooden poles would be unacceptable in most first world cities but here it seems to be the norm. 2 questions:
1. Who decided our streetscapes would look like this?
2. How do we mobilize to get the wires buried at least on main streets downtown?
Renvel makes a sensible suggestion, which is to focus on burying wires on major downtown streets, but there doesn't appear to be the political will to attempt even that. For example, I contacted Kyle Rae's office a while ago to ask if the wires along Jarvis could be buried if the road-narrowing went through. That would seem to be a no-brainer, since the project would involve removing existing pavement down to the dirt level. Rae wasn't interested - and he is one of the most pro-urban, design-positive councillors.
Main streets festooned with overhead wires supported on wooden poles would be unacceptable in most first world cities but here it seems to be the norm. 2 questions:
1. Who decided our streetscapes would look like this?
2. How do we mobilize to get the wires buried at least on main streets downtown?
confusion
Active Member
Not even Bay Street has buried wires. This city has a long way to go to do that.
renvel
Active Member
Ugly wooden poles
I'm ready to participate in any possible way.
How about sendind an open letter to the City Hall attention / Toronto Star? It might work somehow in an election year...
I'm ready to participate in any possible way.
How about sendind an open letter to the City Hall attention / Toronto Star? It might work somehow in an election year...
junctionist
Senior Member
That's a good first start. Also, I bet a petition on this issue could get tens of thousands of signatures.
Dan416
Senior Member
I'll even throw in signatures from Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader and Gandhi to plump up the petition.
junctionist
Senior Member
Sorry, the petition will not contain such rubbish.
bar1967
Active Member
You will have my signature!
Torontovibe
Senior Member
And definitely mine too. I've been complaining about electrical & streetcar wires, rusted poles, nasty postering all over everything and ugly HVAC units on the roofs of buildings, for a long time. Clean up all that crap and our city would be greatly improved. I see no reason why it shouldn't be done.