[CityPainter]

Finally, the City is about to award the Market Lane Park update - to Orin Contractors Corporation - who are new to me. At least not Sanscon! PFR really need to move faster on contracts, this and delays on David Crombie probably mean both will not be done until 2027.

That's good to hear. I hate to be a constant complainer (ok, that ship sailed years ago) but it seems David Crombie park has been ready for imminent renewal since before the pandemic. Every summer I read that shovels will be going in the ground, and then... nothing happens. It really is frustrating.

This is probably a separate whine, but it also feels like it took them all summer to put the bike lanes back on the bulk of the Esplanade (east of Jarvis) and repaint some lines. Honestly it was about 2 weeks of actual work, but they would do one little part and then disappear for weeks, then come back and do another part, again and again, as if they were stretching the work as long as possible. To top it off they painted the lines really sloppily and missed a bunch of places where outlines were never filled in. It really doesn't instill confidence.