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“The City also loves to use harsh chemicals to spray away the maze that keeps getting painted on the walkway at Grange Park….” – TTC Riders – Dufferin Street Bus Lane – Toronto

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October 12th, 2022 Permalink

The city also loves to use harsh chemicals to spray away the the maze that keeps getting painted on the walkway at Grange park. Every two weeks. Meanwhile there’s “no budget” for wood chips in the dog park so the pups play in dirt — Bretton MacLean (@Bretton) October 14, 2022 “The city also loves […]


“The city also loves to use harsh chemicals to spray away the the maze that keeps getting painted on the walkway at Grange park.

Every two weeks.

Meanwhile there’s “no budget” for wood chips in the dog park so the pups play in dirt”

“…It’s time for people to start forming organizations to protect cyclists, transit riders, pedestrians, and yes — drivers — from car-centrism.

I’m not going to spend years writing to city council that I need a crosswalk where I live — I’m just going to paint it now.

I’m not going to wait years on hundreds of thousands of dollars for impact studies blocking traffic out of neighbourhood streets.

We need to just erect the barriers and bike lanes ourselves.

Erect the bus benches ourselves.

Shrink the streets ourselves.

There’s a long history of neighbours taking matters into their own hands.

We need to bring Tactical Urbanism back. …”

 

“M. Christie, vous faîtes de bons biscuits 🍪” – Christie Street Traffic Island Labyrinth – Toronto

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August 13th, 2017 Permalink

Look closely upon the Traffic Island in front of Christie Subway Station, and you can make out the Green Labyrinth I painted on it Every day, thousands of people see it, hundreds and hundreds walk over it, and perhaps dozens and dozens of people walk my weirdly located Labyrinth . . . View this post […]

Look closely upon the Traffic Island in front of Christie Subway Station, and you can make out the Green Labyrinth I painted on it

Every day, thousands of people see it, hundreds and hundreds walk over it, and perhaps dozens and dozens of people walk my weirdly located Labyrinth . . .

Yelp Review: Christie Street Traffic Island Labyrinth

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February 1st, 2010 Permalink

We had heard rumors. Walking outside of Christie station on the TTC, we look down… suddenly we see it… artfully laid out on the ground…  The labyrinth. No, this has absolutely nothing to do with David Bowie.

We had heard rumors.

Walking outside of Christie station on the TTC, we look down… suddenly we see it… artfully laid out on the ground…  The labyrinth.

No, this has absolutely nothing to do with David Bowie.

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Prairie Drive Park / Warden Woods Labyrinth as glimpsed through eastbound TTC subway train window

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August 6th, 2009 Permalink

Growing up in Toronto, one invariably will travel the subway system. For years, just east of the Victoria Park station, I would spot this wading pool in the park officially known as Prairie Drive Park but most people think of it as the south end of Warden Woods. I always thought of the many thousands […]

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Growing up in Toronto, one invariably will travel the subway system. For years, just east of the Victoria Park station, I would spot this wading pool in the park officially known as Prairie Drive Park but most people think of it as the south end of Warden Woods.

I always thought of the many thousands of people who look through the window of the subway train, and see this empty circle of concrete.

In May 2007, I finally got around to painting a labyrinth there. The circuits are white and I used a thin paint brush. Those choices made it less easy to identify from the distance of a speeding train what it is than I would have liked. More Photos