Extra, Extra: Fire Hydrants, Garbage Pails, and Saving the Real Jerk
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Extra, Extra: Fire Hydrants, Garbage Pails, and Saving the Real Jerk

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  • Though their yellowness is undeniable, Toronto fire hydrants are actually colour-coded, with the tops or caps coming in red, orange, blue, and green. Each colour, it seems, corresponds to a different rate of water flow available. The National Post explains more about this nifty little bit of streetscape trivia.

  • Some NIMBY-ism we can get behind: a Parkdale resident has decided he doesn’t want trash in his backyard—or on his local streets. To help alleviate the problem, Darren Sustar created the Parkdale Pail, a program which distributes commercial-size paint buckets, stickered and repurposed as litter bins, to residents in the neighbourhood. Hosts of the pails (homeowners or tenants) agree to empty them as they fill, and everyone walks down cleaner streets. [via Inside Toronto]
  • If you’ve not spent much time at the Real Jerk, it might seem a bit odd that the restaurant’s forthcoming closure has garnered so much sadness and frustration, not to mention a petition aimed at saving the hang-out. In the A.V. Club, John Semley offers an eloquent explanation.

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