Transportation Services is involved in a number of projects in support of the City’s Clean and Beautiful Program. Here are some areas where Transportation Services is active.

Coordinated Street Furniture Program
Transportation Services, with City Planning and the Clean and Beautiful City Secretariat is leading the development of a Coordinated Street Furniture Program. A Request for Proposals was issued in September 2006. Design excellence is the goal of this program. Through the provision of advertising revenues, the system will be fabricated, installed and maintained.

The new system will improve city streets with flexible, high quality furniture. Better placement of transit shelters, refuse bins, benches and publication boxes will eliminate the cluttered appearance of city streets.

Transportation Services also spearheaded a new harmonized bylaw in 2006 to regulate the number and location of street vending boxes.

F. G. Gardiner Expressway Underside Restoration and Clean-up
As part of its state of good repair work for city roads, Transportation Services is working to improve the underside of the elevated portion of the Gardiner Expressway from Bathurst Street to Bay Street.

The work involves incorporating modest upgrades through the use of granular materials, trees and other plantings, lighting, fencing and limited paving. It is aimed at improving the area for pedestrian travel in the vicinity of crossings, as well as enhancing the remaining land. To date, work has been undertaken between Yonge and York Streets and at the crossings of Simcoe and Rees Streets.

Roadside Cleaning
Throughout 2006, Transportation Services continued to clean up areas adjacent to road surfaces by cutting grass in transportation corridors, cleaning litter on boulevards, mechanically collecting leaves in designated areas in the city, as well as graffiti removal and illegal dumping.

Transportation Services and Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff identified over 300 locations in the city called “orphan spaces” or City-owned land, where maintenance has been inconsistent. In 2006, litter was removed from these areas and green spaces were maintained.

Transportation Services performed manual weed control in paved areas such as traffic islands, sidewalks and the median along the Gardiner Expressway, an activity that has been challenging since spraying pesticides were banned in April 2004.

Roadway Cleaning
Transportation Services continued to clean up city roads by mechanically sweeping and flushing streets, manually cleaning around parked cars, cleaning leaves from roadways, cleaning expressways and streets after special events such as the Santa Claus Parade.

Transportation Services provides equipment and staff to assist Solid Waste Management Services, Municipal Licensing and Standards and other divisions for the illegal dumping clean-up, and the annual city-wide spring clean-up.