ShonTron
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Agreed... why is this city so afraid of black? Almost every other cosmopolitan city uses black lamposts, black utility poles, black transit shelters etc. Toronto is often ridiculed for having neighbourhoods of gray mediocrity (see Bay St condo corridor), soa flash of black here and there would at least in the slightest add some contrast to the streets.
Yes! The garbage bins, and shelter supports (like Mississauga's version of the Mediacom/CBS shelters) look better in black.
I'd go one further and suggest black traffic lights. The Ontario yellow 12-8-8 standard with gigantic yellow backplate is ugly, especially the rear, which should be black no matter what (Sudbury and York Region has grey backs, which even are better).
US States that have yellow lights, if they come with backplates, are usually black. Every US State west of the Mississippi (with a few exceptions, like Tucson and Dallas), and some east of it (ie New England, Wisconsin, Illinois) use black, as does most of the world. New York has a deep olive colour, except in municipalities like Buffalo and New York City.