Fewer, safer gas stations is a good thing

The completion of the renovation at the Petro Canada station at Moore and Bayview Ave. recalls just how useful this location is to local drivers. And an article by Jill McIntosh in Autos by Sympatico reminds us that the day of a gas station on every corner is long over. Some may remember when there were no fewer than nine stations on Bayview between Eglnton Ave and Moore. The most recent disappearances were at the corner of Millwood Rd and Bayview where a Cities Service, Esso and Shell station were all torn down in slightly more than a decade around the 1980s.  Today there is but one, the Bayview-Moore Petro Canada.  This is not a bad thing however as service stations, no matter how their owners may try, are seldom things of beauty.