Results tagged “postering”

A staple of Toronto construction hoardings earlier this decade, to be found wherever citizens were admonished to "Post No Bills," the dissident quartet of Cosby, Gates, Clinton, and Murray has returned. Since the end of December, the stencilled interventions have been sprayed across the city anew, lest their more-recently-conceived New York counterpart hog all the glory.

On Monday morning, Astral Media unveiled prototypes of its new line of "street furniture" at City Hall. On Wednesday, we took a look at the garbage bins. On Thursday, the advertising pillars. Yesterday, the transit shelters. Today, everything else. (Also check out Karen von Hahn's disparagement of the street furniture in the Globe.)

Photo by gbalogh from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The Star's Jack Lakey, aka The Fixer, is invaluable. There is no better way to elicit a favourable response from the City bureaucracy than by sicking him on a case of civic neglect. It really is the most consistent way to get things done in Toronto. (The TPSC got Viacom to fulfill their contractual obligation to put street names on transit shelters simply by getting him...