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Extra, Extra: Signs, Stencils, and Maps
Torontoist closes out each weekday with a quick collection of just about everything we think you ought to care about (or ought not miss)—say hi to Extra, Extra.
One of Spacing‘s mock-ups for new street signs.
- Toronto’s new street signs aren’t much to look at. Spacing‘s Matt Blackett wants to change that: he’s proposed a few ways to “enhance” them, from Toronto Archives photos to little icons “that help identify nearby use of the area.”
- In the art world, Banksy is no small fish. We were the first to show you a full-ish set of all the possible street art pieces by him that have materialized in Toronto over the past few days. Now, they’re starting to disappear. Keep your eyes on our photo gallery: we think we have more discoveries yet to come.
- “How many more decades must we wait for real commitment to transit at Queen’s Park?” Steve Munro on the gutting of Transit City.
- And speaking of the TTC, since we are always speaking of the TTC, the transit organization today launched “Meet Your New Ride,” an introduction for the public to Bombardier’s forthcoming light rail vehicles. As part of “Meet Your New Ride,” the public is being invited to name and design the LRVs, which will go well.
- The Star, our favourite mainstream media cartographer, has a map of average property values in Toronto, “broken down to the census tract level.” You may be surprised to learn that the Bridle Path is an expensive place to live.
- Mondoville, meanwhile, interviewed @MovieMayor—the Twitter handle of Bert Xanadu, mayor of Toronto and theatre owner living in 1973 (but not actually). It’s an excellent interview.
- It’s probably been a lonnnggg Monday for local, collaborative, audience-first news site OpenFile, which the Globe‘s Leah McLaren, of all people, described as “a news source that lets journalists look to users for story ideas and commentary rather than the other way around.” The site was supposed to launch today, but as we write this, it’s 4:15 p.m., and we’re still waiting. So long as they do eventually launch, though, we’ll have more about OpenFile in the days ahead.
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This article originally mistakenly attributed a Globe article on OpenFile to Leah Sandals—not, as it should have been, Leah McLaren. (Sandals is a local freelancer and former Torontoist contributor.) Our apologies, especially to Leah Sandals.