It's been a decade since the amalgamation of the old Federation of Toronto, and after years of study and bickering back and forth, City Council:
... adopted a new design for street name signs in an effort to co-ordinate signage across Toronto.
But if some of the older communities want to put a bird on their street-signs, or on the other hand a rainbow, the new design allows it! For "Diversity is our Strength!" Oh Joy! Such progress. Meanwhile stuff like harmonizing a half dozen zoning codes remains a "long term" goal. Way, way long term.
Some advice: if any politician of any stripe suggests a municipal amalgamation where you live, bludgeon them with a brick and run the body through a chipper. Toronto missed out on the last half of the 1990s because of this nonsense.
Well, not complete nonsense. Someone had to get rid of "Canada's Only Borough...Boo-Yah!!" and the sickening notion that Sheppard and Yonge could be thought of as a city centre and a focus of community life. I like the fact the all those city centres are now not trying to pretend to be anything else than what they always were...malls.
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