There's a lot of construction in my St. Clair West neighbourhood just now. There's an aparment building they just finished a block over from our house, which also has a What a Bagel! bakery. There are a couple more that'll soon be going up, so they've set up a shop for condo buyers.
It looks like we're in one of those "happening" neighbourhoods realtors talk about. In recent years they rebuilt the streetcar line and gave it a dedicated lane. The construction itself with something of a mess, taking a lot longer than it should have. But now that it's finished, we're getting the benefits. One is that there are a lot fewer accidents.
On Youtube I like to watch videos about building and engineering and city planning. One channel I watch a lot is City Beautiful. I just saw a video of theirs where they talked about how you can improve traffic by slowing down the rate at which cars enter the freeway and reduce accidents with traffic roundabouts and double diamond-shaped intersections. There's also one about the city of Savannah and how it was laid out in an 18th-century grid system that's improved the quality of life there today.
In China the hoardings around construction sites have government slogans written on them!
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