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[ADRM]

Yep! Which kind of lead into another presentation on public art:

http://waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/wcm/...&CACHEID=5283326c-d090-432d-bde3-c0b4c54bf287

Hopefully we can have something magnificent and significant along the lines of the Bean, Crown Fountain, etc. The public art we have seen so far is nice, but not sufficiently impressive.

AoD

My thoughts exactly; we don't yet have a piece of public art that I'd say qualifies as "destination artwork", to use WT's nomenclature. Sadly, I think the Toronto sign is the closest we've got atm.

I was standing in front of the Bean last weekend and there were maybe 300 people selfie-ing all around me -- this would be a great place for our first version of that.

 

[innsertnamehere]

The Dog fountain is pretty popular - certainly approaching that point. Not sure it is quite "the bean" level, but almost nothing is that popular globally. The Bean, the Bull in NY, and the IamAmsterdam sign are the only pieces of that stature that come to mind.

 

[ADRM]

The Dog fountain is pretty popular - certainly approaching that point. Not sure it is quite "the bean" level, but almost nothing is that popular globally. The Bean, the Bull in NY, and the IamAmsterdam sign are the only pieces of that stature that come to mind.

That's exactly the list I had in mind, and good point about Berczy, which is the first piece of public art (speaking broadly) in this city that I've had international visitors specifically ask that I take them to see when they visit.

 

[salsa]

I was standing in front of the Bean last weekend and there were maybe 300 people selfie-ing all around me -- this would be a great place for our first version of that.

If we're hoping to replicate Chicago's impressive public spaces, I'd wish we'd try it someplace else that is not surrounded by so much uninspired architecture.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

If we're hoping to replicate Chicago's impressive public spaces, I'd wish we'd try it someplace else that is not surrounded by so much uninspired architecture.

You will be hard-pressed to find a place in the city free from that problem, but defaulting to bad public realm just exacerbates the issue.

AoD

 

[pav]

Jan 19, 2018 13:33

Crews installed some light posts earlier today

 

[drum118]

Looking at the site today and talking with someone, the contract between the city and the contractor calls for the contractor to have all 4 lanes open at the end of Jan, but doesn't state in what condition. All work beyond the curb is to be done at a later date.

Haft of the light post are missing between Bay and York. Temporarily construction lights support up for the off ramp as well at Harbour, but not power nor lights on them. No new stop markings on Simcoe for the off ramp. No traffic light box installed yet. New Guard rail in place at Simcoe for both the off ramp lane and Harbour up to where the lanes meet.

Was told the city received a back charge close to $1.8 million to fix the sewage issue on Harbour due to collapse line at Bay. The line ended been clean with a boring machine and reline.

Can't post all the info I was told for various reason, but here is some. Engineering drawings showing various hydro and traffic lights new location had to be redone 3 times. The first one had poles going into the new lanes at York St. Coordination between various parties under city control was off the wall and delay things.

Looks like another contractor doing work on the north side of the Lake Shore at Simcoe that was being done by Guild.

Other than traffic lights up and working as well markings, the road should be open for the off ramp now.

 

[darth_freeman]

Can't post all the info I was told for various reason, but here is some. Engineering drawings showing various hydro and traffic lights new location had to be redone 3 times. The first one had poles going into the new lanes at York St. Coordination between various parties under city control was off the wall and delay things.

Not uncommon for these dense urban projects with lots of utility work (known and unknown) as part of the work. They probably ran into lots of surprises one they finally started excavating.

 

[jdoe1369]

January 21 - Nothing too exciting, we have a some street lamps, the south side temp sidewalk, and the turn lane

 

[pav]

Jan 23, 2018 13:20

New road lane markings

 

[smnlng]

Good luck trying to turn left onto York if you're getting off the Gardiner!

Or try going south on York from Lake Shore - this is going to be fun...

 

[pav]

interesting disappearance / merge of right (3rd) lane from the ramp at a blind curve
(left side from the picture looking west)
don't see the point of having it when the exit starts as 2 lanes

 

[Leo_Chan]

interesting disappearance / merge of right (3rd) lane from the ramp at a blind curve
(left side from the picture looking west)
don't see the point of having it when the exit starts as 2 lanes

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Cars travelling northbound turning right?

 

[W. K. Lis]

As mentioned earlier in the thread, it's a breakdown layby. Being on an incline, vehicles stalling can roll to the side and stop out of the traffic flow in the layby.

 

[pav]

As mentioned earlier in the thread, it's a breakdown layby. Being on an incline, vehicles stalling can roll to the side and stop out of the traffic flow in the layby.

that part of the side walk on Harbour St between Lower Simcoe & York St is narrow, and not having the layby part would have helped with having both pedestrian & bicycle path (but now I think there is one or just shared section)