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Toronto could use a group of "guerilla urbanists" to covertly go around the city at night, removing wooden poles, adding planters to yellow blocks of concrete, finishing off the base of bollards properly, etc, etc. The list is endless. Surely someone can rise to this challenge! :D

Nothing says luxury more than crooked wooden poles in the street with garbage can sized transformers hanging off them.

Well, there is no competing with @kotsy these days, but here's my lowly down-to-earth phone camera shot from yesterday anyway!

Absolutely agree. There are plenty of gems of buildings in Toronto that struggle behind the wall of utility wires, overhead transformers, wooden poles, cracked narrow sidewalks, lack of street furniture, lack of trees etc, etc.

South west corner this morning.

I was about to label "pulchritudinous" as not being "cromulent", but I stand corrected! :)

Corporate logos are the only thing that give this grey burg any colour! :)

The previous giant space helmet always was just a fantasy. It should never have been taken seriously. This at least has a chance of actually being built.

Absolutely agree. Lights, signage, noise, crowds, and mess are the reasons I moved here and not to the countryside. It's the heartbeat of a city.

Check out this guy from @mburrrrr 's pic above. He's walked into the street not realizing the sidewalk is now raised up, while a truck in a narrow lane was heading towards him.

I should probably say "raised" rather than "elevated". I'm guessing it's been graded to match whatever future redevelopment happens to the plaza on the north-west side. There's a good metre or so drop off the side now.

It's been alarming watching jaywalkers not realizing that the sidewalk is now elevated and surrounded by a fence, deciding to walk in the street, dodging fast moving traffic, only to then end up on the wrong side of an active construction zone fencing on the other side of the street!

I've seen cladding deliveries for CIBC square late into the evenings. I assume this is common practice. It makes sense considering less traffic and easier maneuverability on to the sites.

I'd assumed it was precast concrete rather than stone. Happy to be wrong on that though. There was a post of the materials in the SPA somewhere. I'll have to try to find it again.

For future LRT lines, one of my colleagues suggested it would be cheaper and faster to buy every user of the line one of these exoskeletons, and have them all run instead! :D