04-27-2018, 12:01 AM
(04-26-2018, 10:39 PM)timio Wrote: A thread to share interesting/obscure sights on the side of the road.
1. Quicksand near Mississagua
A friend recently told me about a sign that was just west of Mavis along the 401 until recently warning of quicksand. No longer there, but here is the Streetview of it from the past.
2. No Trespassing in Kitchener
On my walks through Forest Heights, there is one house that screams of an interesting backstory. There is a No Trespassing sign on the front lawn near the property line, along with a camera pointing towards said property line and a light pointed at the sign. What makes this somewhat ridiculous, in my view, is that the sign is pointed not at the sidewalk, but at the neighbour's front door. I'm not going to share exact location (also the sign isn't visible from the latest Streetview pass in 2014), but it's off Westheights.
I was recently stuck in a bit of traffic on the 401 (pretty lucky on the whole, the 401 has been broken a lot this week also) and noticed a disused rest stop in Mississauga:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Argent...79.7679345
Specifically I noticed the "washrooms" sign in the woods. As this urbantoronto thread discusses, it's pretty close to Toronto to be a rest stop these days.
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/40...ntre.9965/