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I'm not quite certain that this belongs here or a different thread but IMO it certainly falls under the category of "shabby repair." Who to contact about the increasingly common practice of replacing the hydro poles with fresh ones, but then putting these new poles in WORSE positioning than the previous one? The sidewalks already seem too narrow/not a modern width and now it's even more hostile to walk here than usual. Who does this job and thinks "Yeah, this'll do!"
This is on west sidewalk of Dundas on the curve that's north of Bloor and happened sometime in the last week. I'd say it's less than a metre wide now.
- People are getting bigger
- Strollers are getting wider
- Winter snow shovelling is poorly done
- And of course...an accessibility nightmare
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The Irony, if that's the word here, is that if Hydro, a City agency had to get permits from Toronto Buildings, for pole placement, they would be refused.
Buildings lets somethings go that it should not.
But they are quite rightly officious about where one places things in the ROW.
So a developer that submitted plans showing a pole placed like this would get a hard no; but Toronto Hydro slips by, because they don't run their work plan by Buildings.
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