{"id":932,"date":"2006-06-28T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=932"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:49:09","slug":"public-space-in-the-news-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/28\/public-space-in-the-news-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Public space in the news today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues:<\/p>\n<p>City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to invite private firms to bid on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1151445022188&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\"><strong>a 20-year contract to supply the city with all its &#8220;street furniture&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; transit shelters, litter and recycling bins, benches, bicycle racks, newspaper vending boxes, information pillars, and even public toilets. The city will ask the private bidders to put up the cost of the various items: By the end of the contract, for example, the city expects to have 6,000 transit shelters, each costing about $20,000 to build and install, for a total of $120 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1151445021959&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\">Vaughan is going after posters<\/a><\/strong>. The city has found a way to take the stick out of illegal advertisements plastered all over city poles and signs &#8212; sort of a Pam for spam. &#8220;These signs are a blight on the urban landscape,&#8221; Vaughan Councillor Alan Shefman said yesterday as city staff sprayed non-stick oil on a street sign to show how it works. Every year, thousands of illegal paper signs, advertising everything from three rooms of furniture for $499 to pest control, flutter from light standards and street signs in city intersections. But now, Vaughan staff has come up with an environmentally safe product that greases up the metal so the advertising can&#8217;t stick.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ctv.ca\/archives\/CTVNews\/img2\/20051129\/160_mayor_candidate_051129.jpg\" \/>At her first fundraiser as a mayoral candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1151445022171&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\"><strong>Jane Pitfield pledged to reduce homelessness, make Toronto&#8217;s streets cleaner, and throw her support behind the Guardian Angels<\/strong><\/a>, a group she says the city needs to combat its crime problem. &#8220;I support a Canadian version of Guardian Angels starting, and I applaud our Toronto volunteers who have stepped forward. I would encourage our police chief to work with them. I hope that happens because they won&#8217;t be effective unless they work with police,&#8221; Pitfield, a Toronto city councillor, told reporters last night.<\/p>\n<p>Greyhound Canada has come up with an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1151445022059&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\">$8 million mega park-n-ride proposal<\/a><\/strong> designed to make travelling between Toronto and Barrie faster by bus and cheaper than taking GO Transit. The City of Barrie is considering a proposal from Greyhound to build a terminal on the south side of town with a lot large enough to provide free parking for 1,000 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Also read the post below for links to Royson James&#8217;s column on the Expo bid and the new airline that will take flight soon from the island airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues: City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to invite private firms to bid on a 20-year contract to supply the city with all its &#8220;street furniture&#8221; &#8212; transit shelters, litter and recycling bins, benches, bicycle racks, newspaper<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/28\/public-space-in-the-news-today-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Public space in the news today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21757,21758,21759,8,6,5],"tags":[11,1503,2701,2696,655,2699,2702,2698,2700,1079,2469,1803,2697,26,1938,16,405,19,391,2703],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-community","category-features","category-transit","category-walking","category-waterfront","tag-ad-creep","tag-airline","tag-alan-shefman","tag-barrie","tag-city-councillor","tag-expo","tag-first-fundraiser","tag-greyhound-canada","tag-guardian-angels","tag-jane-pitfield","tag-mayoral-candidate","tag-metal","tag-non-stick-oil","tag-people","tag-police-chief","tag-posters","tag-the-star","tag-toronto","tag-usd","tag-vaughan-councillor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Public space in the news today - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/28\/public-space-in-the-news-today-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public space in the news today - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues: City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to invite private firms to bid on a 20-year contract to supply the city with all its &#8220;street furniture&#8221; 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