Bah. You hit on one of my minor irritations about Toronto--the city is sadly ditching the acorn signs for
these numbers, largely to save money. Some will still demarcate specific neighbourhoods, but the new design is pretty meh.
Similar to the crummy new street furniture, which, to its small credit, included garbage bins with little foot pumps to open the receptacles--but the pumps are wearing out already, and trash is usually strewn everywhere since they don't close properly anymore.
This Lisa Rochon piece in the Globe actually gets at some of what we're talking about here in terms of Canada's crappy public realm, using the street furniture as an example.
Oh, Canada.
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