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Morning Brew: Ford praises private garbage collection, street festival narrows Yonge, stray fingers, Tyrrell Ave. typos, bike lane blockages, and drunken bananas
Private garbage collection in the city's west end is still making headlines as bins continue to remain full almost a week after Green For Life, the company contracted to collect the waste west of Yonge, started its first rounds. Despite the problems, Rob Ford described the service as "great" and "fantastic" after a news conference yesterday. What do you think - are some teething issues to be expected?
Celebrate Yonge - a street festival stating this Friday that will involve closing down several lanes of traffic between Queen and Gerrard - could be used as a litmus test for future pedestrianization of the popular north-south route. Some lanes have already been closed in anticipation of the event, much to the aggravation of several drivers interviewed by The Star.
A severed finger found near Front and University that prompted a fretful call to Toronto police yesterday turned out to be a prop from a zombie film. It's not clear whether the realistic decomposing digit had been discarded or deliberately left behind.
Tyrrell Avenue near Christie and Davenport is, strangely, persistently misspelled by the city on its signage. Recently manufactured signs have used "Tyrrel" and "Tyrell," apparently for no reason. The National Post tells the story of Herrie ten Cate, who lives nearby, and is launching a campaign to correct the mistakes. For more name debates, see "Linsmore" vs. "Linnsmore" in the east end.
Are cyclists who complain about the storage of TTC streetcar rails in the College Street bike lane making mountains out of molehills? The National Post's Chris Selley thinks so; he says commuters of all stripes tend to catastrophize minor inconveniences like this, sometimes unnecessarily.
You know what bananas love? Booze! Banana Bar Crawls - drinking sessions where everyone dresses up as curved yellow fruit - are coming to Toronto.
IN OTHER NEWS:
- Blue Jays edge White Sox in extra innings [CBC]
- Second company plans high-rise next to proposed U of T residence [Globe and Mail]
- Cricket Canada dreams of an island pitch [The Star]
- Stephen Harper helps Ryerson unveil new digs at old Gardens [National Post]
- Man wanted for 1998 U.S. killing arrested in Toronto [CBC]
Photo: "All That Remains" by Stephen Gardiner in the blogTO Flickr pool.
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GFL = "Good Fucking Luck" having us pick up on time
Like the 100 meters of lane closures in front of every condo being built in the city.
Haven't seen a single news report of any cyclist accidents at the College St rail pile, so I guess everybody is safely figuring it out.
That's the problem. The garbage market in Dublin was opened to all rather than tenders being issued for a given zone. The safety of residential streets from large and difficult to maneuver tracks demands that pickup should be done by one and only one agency, be it public or private.
What seems to be emerging is that the GFL contract was given out in too large a chunk to be easily digested, and that fool in the mayor's office who can never admit to being wrong is reflexively defending them rather than saying "of course a change of any kind involves transitional issues but the contractor will be obliged to pay penalties until such time as they get it right"
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/busy-toronto-mayor-admits-to-reading-while-driving-on-highway-1.913770
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