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“Highway shanty knocked down”
At a time when the city is allowing Clear Channel to maintain an illegal video sign along the Gardnier Expressway at 143 Lake Shore Boulevard East, a sign the city can remove at no cost to the taxpayer per the Signs By-Law, Toronto has just spent signifigant resources to demolish this man’s home underneth the same expressway. Something’s seriously fucked up about that.
Y’know Palmerston, I too have a big problem with the video signs and innumerable billboards along the Gardiner, but you’re conflating two vastly different things here.
Chris built his house against one of the supports for the Gardiner. These do need to have work done on them to ensure that they stay in good shape. From what I’ve read and seen, his house makes maintenance work on the supports very difficult.
The City isn’t suddenly “targetting” Chris now, it’s following its maintenance schedule to ensure the Gardiner remains in safe and stable shape. He just decided to build his house in the way. The City’s offered him another place to live, but he’s not interested (yes, he does have his reasons).
But when the time finally comes to rip down the Gardiner itself, will you be trying to stop that for all the people who camp out underneath it? I certainly hope not.
hold the phone — since when did the ttc decide that the new subway cars would only run on the yonge-university-spadina line? what about the poor cousin bloor-danforth line? the latter probably still has subway cars with orange and brown seats! while a number of political reasons suggest themselves, it seems most equitable for the ttc to run a proportional number of new subway cars on each of the three lines currently in operation.
speaking of the ttc, i had the pleasure of travelling on a new bus today, on the bathurst line. if you can believe it, the bus actually had a “new bus” smell! it’s true!
i also saw the only air-conditioned streetcar running on the short version of the spadina line today. interesting choice of locale.
Why interesting?
John Duncan, the house needed to come down for safety, so does the video screen.
Well, the Yonge line is Canada’s first subway and it deserves brand new trains. As for the new buses, TTC have been ordering them for 4 years to replace those old General Motors buses from the early 1980’s.
I believe the new trains are too long for the Sheppard line, mkm (they come permanently configured as 6-car trains). As for sharing with the Bloor line, I’d venture a guess that phasing the new trains in on one line allows them to consolidate maintenance operations and whatnot at one train yard instead of spreading them out.
Another reason to put the new trains on the Yonge line is that it needs the higher capacity that the new trains have more then the Bloor-Danforth line needs it.