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Extra, Extra: Summer of Construction, Dangerous Dog Parks, and TTC Footage
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- The City will be spending over $215 million this year to upgrade roads, expressways, and bridges, and expects to resurface 185 kilometres of road and repair at least 200,000 potholes in 2014. All of this, of course, will result not simply in smoother roads, but also in traffic congestion (but not the kind caused by snow) and commuting headaches (but not the ones caused by snow)—spring is here!
- A dog park near Dundas and Bloor has been closed because an “unusually large amount of chocolate” was discovered scattered throughout it. Eating chocolate can be deadly to dogs, so we’re very much hoping this was the work of someone innocently ignorant and not actively malevolent. (And we also hope that even innocent, ignorant people will stop doing things like leaving poisonous-to-dog substances lying around in dog parks.)
- Is there anything better than footage of blue skies, green trees, and handsome streetcars?
- If there’s anything better than footage of blue skies, green trees, and handsome streetcars, it might be this footage (originally shot for a longer documentary), which shows how a TTC subway operator deals with a train that suddenly becomes disabled between St. Clair West and Eglinton West stations.
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