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How about West Adelaide West for its extension? ![Stick Out Tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
When the City assumes ownership will they actually name the streets properly too?
I think they'll retain the new names given. Adding a south end to an existing street implicates renumbering the existing street because the numbers begin on the south.
It was suggested for Ossington that the continuation of this street to the south be named Lower Ossington. That's a good solution for Ossington but smaller streets like White Squirrel Way have no reason to be renamed by their northern equally small street neighbours.
Then consider the slang mutation of "squirrel" into "squirrelly," meaning nuts.
I noticed one of the "New Streets" in the plan has "Private Road" in brackets. So much for being incorporated into the city street grid.
It's private right now. Once the project is complete, it will be handed over to the city.
Toronto Street Update
JOHN BENTLEY MAYS
May 30, 2008
Globe and Mail
It's official.
The new southward extension of Fennings Street into the campus of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) will be known henceforth as White Squirrel Way.
The name is an abomination.
As the massive overhaul of the hospital unfolds, streets are to penetrate the monolithic site from two sides.
The goal is to transform the hospital into what CAMH calls an "urban village" of normal buildings stitched into the urban fabric by means of "normal" thoroughfares. CAMH is keen to shed the stigma of a crazy house isolated from ordinary urban life.
So what has the hospital done to announce its brave change of image?
It has dubbed its first through street after the albino rodents that scamper on its lawns. They are, of course, abnormal creatures, much like what many people believe the mentally ill to be.
Then consider the slang mutation of "squirrel" into "squirrelly," meaning nuts.
What a name for a new street into a hospital trying to rescue its patients and itself from a reputation for oddity!
The hospital should change the name to something that clearly indicates CAMH's relation to its neighbourhood: South Fennings Street or perhaps Lower Fennings Street, or - the best option - just Fennings Street.
Any one of these monikers would signal that CAMH is sincere in wanting to join the city after nearly 160 years of isolation from it.