Trudeau Drive, with a beautifully landscaped median and multiple rows of trees:

Holly Ave that came later. Not as nice is Trudeau but still a nice looking median with nice street lights with hanging pots:

 

 

Scott Blvd, that came after. Tiny, ugly median with no beautification:
 

 

We should be learning from old construction and making new ones better, not worse. 

Shameless promotion: This also underscores why it is important to have councillors who actually live in the neighbourhood (I live near Scott Blvd).  If Ward 8 councillors actually lived here (and spent time thinking about residents instead of writing borderline-racist document demonstrating questionable intellect – yes, this guy is our current councillor), we would have a safer road and a beautiful neighbourhood. 

Instead we are represented by a local councillor who almost lost his seat four times in last couple of years because he skipped meetings for almost three months in a row.  Even now, instead of representing residents on subcommittees (he doesn’t sit in a single one), attending public meetings (I attend all of them and have never seen him in one), council meeting on budget (he skipped) or council meeting to take feedback on the official plan that could make roads like Scott Blvd nicer and safer (he skipped it); he chooses to spend time writing on how all other cultures are destroying Canada and and causing “us to lose our moral compass”, how all other countries are “moral and/or financial cesspools”, Canadians who got stuck in a war zone and asked to be rescued were “bitching” and, well, go read for yourself and then decide if you want to elect a councillor from among your neighbours or an outsider who doesn’t live in ward 8.