Public Realm Maintenance

[DSCToronto]

Ashbridges Bay boat launch, it's been like this for at least 5 years.
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Yes, that does not look good but in fairness the vast majority of the Ashbridges Bay Park is really very well looked after. Could this section be the responsibility of the boat club??

 

[nstuch]

Yes, that does not look good but in fairness the vast majority of the Ashbridges Bay Park is really very well looked after. Could this section be the responsibility of the boat club??

I don't think so, there's various City of Toronto signs around and it's a public boat launch. Plus those fences and cones are Toronto standard issue lol.

 

[turbanplanner]

I don't think so, there's various City of Toronto signs around and it's a public boat launch. Plus those fences and cones are Toronto standard issue lol.

How many influencers would say Toronto is helping the "rich yacht owners" if there's a hint of a penny spent for people launching seadoos and dingys

 

[PL1]

Posted by Becky Katz (City of Toronto manager of Ops and Maintenance) in her LinkedIn: a new paver repair program:

For the first time since 2016, our incredible downtown maintenance delivery team (lead by Arthur Sinclair P.Eng.) has launched a dedicated paver repair program. In my newer maintenance role I often… | Becky Katz | 13 comments

For the first time since 2016, our incredible downtown maintenance delivery team (lead by Arthur Sinclair P.Eng.) has launched a dedicated paver repair program. In my newer maintenance role I often ask myself: what repairs truly help build civic pride? Fixing a single pothole or one bay of...

www.linkedin.com

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[Northern Light]

Becky Katz pushed hard for a multitude of improvements while managing the Cycling and Pedestrian unit. It was largely during her tenure than the City went from mostly painted lines and sometimes flexiposts to raised/fully separated cycle tracks
and then adding landscaping/streetscaping as well. We've just started to see the results of those changes as the more advanced designs such as Harbord come to fruition.

Its good to see her extending that same lens of departmental self-improvement here, something that with any luck we will see the benefit of quite soon.

 

[junctionist]

Posted by Becky Katz (City of Toronto manager of Ops and Maintenance) in her LinkedIn: a new paver repair program:

For the first time since 2016, our incredible downtown maintenance delivery team (lead by Arthur Sinclair P.Eng.) has launched a dedicated paver repair program. In my newer maintenance role I often… | Becky Katz | 13 comments

For the first time since 2016, our incredible downtown maintenance delivery team (lead by Arthur Sinclair P.Eng.) has launched a dedicated paver repair program. In my newer maintenance role I often ask myself: what repairs truly help build civic pride? Fixing a single pothole or one bay of...

www.linkedin.com

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Was there no repair system for pavers before? Was the previous "system" to slap some asphalt on it and hope that everyone just assumes it's temporary and that they're waiting for the ground to settle? We've only been using concrete pavers since what, the 1970s?

There are people in the private sector who do nothing but fix paver driveways and walkways all day long. So yes, I may be feeling some civic pride right now, though it's more like a feeling of the weight of some civic embarrassment being lifted off my shoulders. They've got this, fam?

 

[nightstreak]

What in god's name is happening with the sidewalk on the east side of Yonge south of King to Wellington? It has been closed off for years now.

Am I crazy or has this been closed since around the Pandemic or even before then?

 

[DSCToronto]

What in god's name is happening with the sidewalk on the east side of Yonge south of King to Wellington? It has been closed off for years now.

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Am I crazy or has this been closed since around the Pandemic or even before then?

It was first closed for the King Station second exit and now, I think, for the demo of the building at Yonge and Colbourne.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Was there no repair system for pavers before? Was the previous "system" to slap some asphalt on it and hope that everyone just assumes it's temporary and that they're waiting for the ground to settle? We've only been using concrete pavers since what, the 1970s?

There are people in the private sector who do nothing but fix paver driveways and walkways all day long. So yes, I may be feeling some civic pride right now, though it's more like a feeling of the weight of some civic embarrassment being lifted off my shoulders. They've got this, fam?

Yea, to me this is one of the quiet signs of the city moving away from 15 years of austerity. Doing basic things like paver maintenance is one of those “getting the little things right”.

 

[nightstreak]

It was first closed for the King Station second exit

Where is this second exit supposed to go? The sidewalks are so narrow.

and now, I think, for the demo of the building at Yonge and Colbourne.

There’s no demolition occurring that would require closing off a lane of Yonge Street. An actual demolition would require building hoarding. There’s a dumpster on Colborne for some interior demo.

I haven’t see any activity on the Yonge site for years and I walk by several times a week. Seems like some bureaucratic stall.

Maps shows this sign. Closed Jan 2023 to Sep 2024.

 

[DSCToronto]

Where is this second exit supposed to go? The sidewalks are so narrow.



There’s no demolition occurring that would require closing off a lane of Yonge Street. An actual demolition would require building hoarding. There’s a dumpster on Colborne for some interior demo.

I haven’t see any activity on the Yonge site for years and I walk by several times a week. Seems like some bureaucratic stall.

Maps shows this sign. Closed Jan 2023 to Sep 2024.
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See https://www.ttc.ca/about-the-ttc/projects-and-plans/King-Station and https://www.ttc.ca/about-the-ttc/pr...r-Projects/King-Station-Capacity-Improvements re second exit, accessibility and 'capacity' I may be wrong about the demo being responsible too but....

You note that the sidewalk on east side of Yonge is narrow, there are plans/hopes to move the entrance/exit into the new building - if it ever happens.

 

[Northern Light]

There’s no demolition occurring that would require closing off a lane of Yonge Street. An actual demolition would require building hoarding. There’s a dumpster on Colborne for some interior demo.

They have the permit for full demolition of the building here, they have since late summer.

I imagine that work will be forthcoming.