[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by niwell

I get the utility poles complaint, but the pavement quality thing strikes me as just... odd. I've been to lots of cities in North America, and biked in many of them. Toronto's pavement quality is about average. Places like Chicago and San Francisco tend to take better care of the tourist areas, but then let stuff fall apart to a greater degree in other inner neighbourhoods. Outside of Manhattan, NYC tends to be pretty bad too.

Toronto's real culprit is utility cuts, and the lackluster repair of them by the utility companies. This appears to be a big problem in parts of Melbourne as well, interestingly enough!

I don't know why the city doesn't hold the utility companies responsible. They should not be allowed to cut section out of a sidewalk and just replace it with asphalt.