Meet the new kind of street coming to Toronto

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Then there's the salt spray. That stuff is going to leech down to the roots sooner or later.

Much better on this than before, though.  The region has been one of the leaders in cutting back on road salt, and has reduced chlorine levels by about half by applying best practices rather than spreading salt with wild abandon.

Although it seems to me that I read earlier this year that it remains a problem on King St Downtown, where many of the trees really seem to struggle.