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Careful! Sign ahead!

By Jill

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We know what you’re thinking:
People are getting shot, we’re at risk from infectious diseases; trucks mow down cyclists; smog season is upon us; there’s less and less protection for our city’s most vulnerable; and we, Torontoist, are posting about this?
Yes. Because this sign is an example of what Toronto does better and more fervently than any other city in the World. It wants you to be safe. Really, really safe. Certainly safer than in Montréal, where an open manhole cover or a crater the size of Lac St-Louis in the middle of Boulevard Ste-Catherine never moved anyone to reach for the orange paint or a whisp of caution tape.
So for the love of Miller, be careful out there.

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  • paul

    i agree that toronto does try to make you feel safe, and you can tell that the effort is constant. it’s obvious, but i dunno if you can say that we do it better (or at least more obviously) than any other city in the world…
    take a trip to singapore, then come back. we don’t even compare.
    cheers.

  • Michael

    It’s actually provincial construction regulations that require a sign like that.
    So it’s the same in Toronto, Vaughan, Moosonee and Thunder Bay.

  • Claire

    Safe eh? tell that to the ppl killed on their bikes and the committee that’s putzed around for a dozen years re do large trucks need safety guards on them.

  • anon

    On Dovercourt just north of Dundas, last Monday, a crew came by and razed the 3″ of cement off one square on the sidewalk, leaving bare packed dirt. When I walked home from work that day, not only had the square been covered with planks, but a stretch of *road* about 10 metres on each side had been pyloned off, and a standing “CONSTRUCTION” sign placed at each end. It was left this way for about 5 days untouched, until another crew apparently came and simply poured a layer of cement back on.
    Don’t ask why a 2″ lower surface of packed dirt, for approximately 1 metre of the sidewalk, calls for blocking off 20 metres of road for five days…!