"someone has installed a new type of bike post along Yonge north of Lawrence,"
Inspired by a similar project in which psychiatric survivors
designed bike stands for the curb in front of the Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre (PARC), the
Yonge Lawrence Village BIA commissioned two of the artists behind that project, Phil Sarazen and Jack Gibney, to fashion sixteen pieces, each featuring "a different aspect of community living." Studded into each block on both sides of Yonge Street north from Lawrence to Yonge Boulevard, they succeed in being everything that
Astral's street furniture is not and should serve as an inspiration to all neighbourhoods and BIAs as to what is possible when you're willing to invest in your community rather than sell it out.