New view of Medland Ave on Pacific Ave

The differing views abound in the Annette St area over the past few years with all the changes being made.

...from road work to church conversion more views like this are coming.

Before all this conversion of building began happening you  could look from most yards and see a church. It was wonderful, yet is nice here that the bulk of the church will remain.

New Gym coming to the Junction

At Pacific Ave and Dundas St West in the building on the north east corner which has three retail spaces on the ground floor, a new womens gym (where members spouses will be welcomed) is going in. In the past few weeks the removal of the old Scotiabank service counters has occurred.

With all the text this author puts on this blog about the Junction strip, I seem to have been remiss in promoting a gym, but the though of one coming in is great.  Yes  I know iron core is in the Junction, Yet I get the feeling it's a gym for hard-core physical fitness persons.

orange telephone a call for attention to the issue?

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Commenter A.R pointed out the possibility  and commenter Liz provided in the comments section this most probable reason for the orange telephone.

The practice started in Detroit by painting the abandoned houses bright orange so that people would notice and have them removed before they collapsed and hurt someone. Someone must have learned about it, and is using the same tactic for: “Look at this! It’s abandoned and doesn’t work, don’t ignore it get Rid of it.” (usually works too)  Liz

the blog Googled it and hers an article at the thedetroiter [link]

So whoever did this ......keep going, (and send the blog the location so we can get a picture), hopefully this will cause action to have the non working telephones  removed

Orange telephone - could not whatever statemnet been attempted be made elsewhere with this paint

The public telephone at the south west corner of Dundas St. West and Pacific Ave. has been painted orange recently; while it looks nice as an orange patch it does nothing for the perceived value of the community towards itself.

This does not appear to be a Bell Canada pay telephone, which causes wonder how long it will stay this way.

Parking now on west side of Quebec Ave, north of Dundas

You can now park on Quebec Avenue on thewest side -  north of Dundas.  This must be wonderful for Crema Coffee and Iron Core customers, which in itself is a good thing.  It seems the parking places cars in favour and against people walking and removes the street vistas - this is not good.

With the additional parking of a similar nature available now on Pacific Ave  towards Vine Ave, haven't we given enough of our streets over for cars to sit and sleep?

Pacific Ave roadway problems

Pacific Ave has two major roadway problems, that really obstruct traffic, the one pictured being the worst.  It is not a pothole, but a major desctuction of the road.