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6 Comments June 25, 2009 at 3:18 pm

City’s Latest Waste Drop-Off Locations Announced

As expected, the City has added nineteen new waste drop-off locations to their strike plan, and even threw together a fancy-pants Google Map including all of the sites, initial and newly-announced (above; click any marker to view more details about each spot) [UPDATE, 3:40 p.m.: The Star's web editor, Patrick Cain, of Map of the Week fame, also points us to his paper's equally fancy-pants Google Map]. The nineteen new sites, which include Christie Pits, Sunnyside Park, George Bell Arena, York Mills Arena, and Eglinton Flats, are all open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day of the week.

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Any news or guesses on union activity at these sites?
http://www.torontoist.com David Topping

I haven’t heard anything yet, but I assume that most would be picketed if they weren’t already—but that as more sites open, the effectiveness of pickets at any one site diminishes.
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Are they allowed to block public access to public spaces like parks?
http://undefined Cereal

They currently have the right lane of Lakeshore (easterly) blocked off at ellis, right in front of the dump site. It looks like its setup up to be a car queue.
It’s going to cause some serious traffic headaches.
http://undefined Vincent Clement

Legally, picketers cannot stop you from accessing a public space once you asserted you right to access that public space. Naturally, if there are a group of picketers, they aren’t likely to move out of your way any time soon.
http://undefined Ben

I was in and out of Christie Pitts this morning in less than a minute. There were some people milling about, but I saw no placards.
There was a security guard there. I suppose that the city is worried about some violence erupting.

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