There's a speed bump on Crawford Street, not long before the one-way road cuts through the northernmost edge of Trinity Bellwoods Park. After drivers lurch over the bump, explains Martin Reis, they often pick up speed fast, accelerating towards Dundas, through and past a small crossing that joins the isolated north-west tip of Trinity Bellwoods with the park as a whole, a crossing frequented by slow-moving seniors headed for nearby residences.
We showed you photos of the Urban Repair Squad's latest intervention in a post on Tuesday—wherein we firmly insisted that the future health of the region's transportation infrastructure hinges on the presence of two twelve-foot-tall plywood figures—but today we have a video for you! The clip is a "bit of a first," the URS tells us, in that "It was made collectively."
On first glance, the above shot could be a generic photo pulled from our Flickr pool to accompany any article about pedestrianism/cycling/active transportation/Toronto. But look at it for another moment, and you may notice that there's something amiss about the City's topiary logo alongside the Gardiner...
At 7:46 Monday morning, Torontoist received a release from press@ttc.ca, headed "TTC launches the 'WARM WELCOME' campaign":
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