Urban Shocker
Doyenne
The new slatted seats in the bus shelters are an improvement on the original seats - which pooled liquids.
All black versions of the garbage bins have been installed along Yonge St. presumably to match the new streetlights.
They look better than the grey ones IMO.
Is scratchitti a new thing? I figured that it was a low grade glass being used hense the mess most bus shelters are in, I don't recall ever seeing this with the old shelters.
Scrattchiti seems to be a relatively new phenomenon, perhaps more pervasive because we're building more and more things out of glass.
It's not easy to scratch glass. You can take an X-Acto knife to a shelter and nothing will happen. You need a diamond or another sharp rock. I suspect diamond tipped drill bits are being used.
We worked with Parks and Recreation and Urban Planning," says Raff, referring to the to chief city departments involved in the project, "and the police are the ones who deal with staffing the stands – they all have requirements, including some highly detailed signage requirements."
In the end, Raff says, they came up with a design he describes as "not flashy, Frank Gehry-style design," but one that integrated those signage requirements into the design, "just like the 1950s subways stations of Toronto, where the font on the walls is an integral part of the design of the buildings."