Pictures of your dysfunctional Toronto

It’s rather like a story from a psychiatric ward. On the left you see a workman sawing down a patio on South Bayview. It was urgent. The patios had to go immediately because “we’re going to replace all this sidewalk tomorrow.” That was August 15, 2011. According to the supervisor of the work Bruce Shaw (who seems to have vanished off the face of the earth) the old concrete tree boxes were to be removed. Fine. The trees would of course come down. Fine. Then Mr Shaw and all his people disappeared. Gone. And nearly two months later, they’re still gone. But then on August 30, 2011 (right) we have the Department of Urban Forestry pruning the trees that are slated to be cut down. It is the first time the trees have been pruned in eleven years. In all of this, there is no communication with the merchants about when or if we may expect this work to begin. During the Christmas rush? Next spring? Who knows? The City’s operations are simply dysfunctional. And what’s more, nobody seems to care.