Tewder
Senior Member
Well I stand corrected then... not. All joking aside, you can find just about anything to eat on the streets of Manhattan... that's pretty 'major' right? In Toronto you're lucky to find a tube steak.
I heard briar de Lange say that they will be replacing dead trees. I didn't know it was so hard to get these trees going in the city. Can be costly.
The London plane is very tolerant of atmospheric pollution and root compaction, and for this reason it is a popular urban roadside tree. It is now extensively cultivated in most temperate latitudes as an ornamental and parkland tree, and is a commonly planted tree in cities throughout the temperate regions of the world, not just London but Auckland, Buenos Aires, Curitiba, New York City, Paris, Madrid, Melbourne, Mannheim, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chicago, Sydney, Rybnik and many others. It has a greater degree of winter cold tolerance than the Oriental Plane, and is less susceptible to anthracnose disease than the American Plane. The seeds are used as a food source by some finches and squirrels.
I only walked from Jarvis to Yonge, but found about 20-25 London Plane trees that have been sawed off about at about the 4' mark. Many of these I know died shortly after being planted 2 years ago so I presume that's why all of them were cut down. Hopefully they'll be replaced in between the tulips and whatever is planted next. They had much better luck with the crop of London Planes that were planted west of Yonge during the 2nd & 3rd phase of plantings, though I recall a few that didn't make it there either.
Sorry for the crappy iPhone snaps, I didn't have my Canon on me & the 3GS just doesn't cut it - I'm upgrading to iPhone 5 once it comes out this fall & will be able to grab better quality pics. when I don't have my Canon on me.
You won't find a deader part of Bloor Street at night than the revitalized part. Perhaps it was part of the plan to have all the night time activity concentrated up on Cumberland and Yorkville, or it was just coincidence that all the Bloor Street cinemas and restos in that stretch closed at around the same time. But if the goal was for homogenous high end retail only, mission accomplished.