Can’t blame this one on Rob Ford. The contact was signed in the Mayor Miller era and we are stuck with poorly conceived public “furniture” for decades to come.
This roadside advertising frame masquerades as a bus shelter but affords no shade and no windbreak from the sides. The black strip is apparently intended to be a public message board but you can see how it is actually used. I hope you can’t see the small, cowardly racial slur that’s there. If I thought you could read it, I would have blanked it out.
“He who pays the piper, calls the tune”, goes the old saying. Clearly, the advertising company placing these poster holders didn’t have bus riders as a main concern, but the City could have done a lot more to gain useful street furniture for the public. Nope. You get what you pay for. These cost nothing and that’s about what they are worth.