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Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie.

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Congratulations. You've just moved into a home or apartment in the rapidly growing city of North York to start your bright future. You either don't own a car or prefer to use one as little as possible. Fixed public transit services haven't quite made it out to your neck of the woods yet you really want to be chauffeured by a bow-tie wearing driver with a creepy smile who will drop you off at your doorstep.

For reasons that were surely thoroughly considered, York Mills was not a stop on the recent Type & Tile Tour of the Yonge-University-Spadina line. Nevertheless, due largely to escalator maintenance that has been ongoing for over a year, it is still quite the treasure trove of wacky signage. Here are some recent highlights:

The Toronto Star. July 18, 2007. Joe Fiorito column: The other day I noticed a Red Rocket, defaced from stem to stern with a depiction of a bottle of vodka and the comely legs of a party girl whose dress was hiked up around her thighs. Let me count the ways this is wrong. But first, my bona fides. I grew up during the sexual revolution. I also learned a variety of useful lessons...

Photos of signage on yet another recycled hoarding at York Mills station taken by Jonathan Goldsbie.

It seems that many people believe that the City of Toronto doesn't need to levy taxes in order to maintain a high level of City services. If only the City had its finances in order and cut back on spending, they say, then there would be no financial crunch. In response, Mayor Miller likes to point out how many cutbacks there indeed have been and how much contracting out is already taking place and, above all, how the TTC was recently rated the "most efficient" transit system in North America

So you wake up, make a cup of coffee, go outside to grab the newspaper in your PJs and suddenly notice that your regular copy of The Globe and Mail has been replaced with a more different copy of The Globe and Mail. One with ugly black divider bars scattered across the front page and at least a couple inches lost from the broadsheet. You notice an alarming increase of sans serif fonts. Is life ever the same after a redesign?

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Two Torontoist posts about TTC escalators in one day? It can only mean what everyone's been eagerly anticipating all year long: Escalator Safety Week. Yesterday's hipster hot-spot was undoubtedly the Yonge and Bloor subway station where Escalator Safety Week was launched with demonstrations by local public school students on how to properly use an escalator. I won't tell you everything there was to learn (you should've been there), but here are a few tips:

In keeping with today's goose theme, here are some goose/geeses lost on York Mills.

There have been rumours coming outta Don Mills for a while. At CanWest's York Mills hub, a chunk of second floor space has been painted hip, youthful colours, and installed with open-concept Ikea carboard. It all spells freebie commuter rag, this one to be given the unfortunate name of Dose. According to the Star, the paper will be available in five cities, and aims to target 18-34 year olds who like bite-size news, and sections with names like 'people like us,' and 'live better.' Sounds a bit scary, but we'll reserve judgement until the paper comes out on April 4th. That's if we can find it amidst the metastasizing newspaper boxes that dot our subway stop.