A stop sign that was planted in a sidewalk has been moved aside, where it won’t be in the way of pedestrians.

On April 20, we reported on a stop sign in a most inconvenient place, the middle of a sidewalk at the corner of Glen Echo Rd. and Doncliffe Dr., near Yonge St. and Lawrence Ave.

A reader told us it had been there for a long time and that anyone pushing a child stroller or using a wheelchair or motorized scooter would have trouble getting around it, particularly in winter.

He reported it to 311, but was told the sign’s position “would be modified within 9 months,” leaving him incredulous that a relatively simple task would take so long.

But the estimated time to fix it got a lot shorter after our column. We got a note a few weeks ago from the same reader, saying the sign had been moved to the side, where it should have been in the first place.

Our June 29 column was about a sunken utility chamber cover in the worst possible place, the seam between the curb lane on westbound Kingston Rd. and the right-turn lane onto St. Clair Ave.

A reader who regularly makes the turn from Kingston Rd. onto St. Clair told us that when traffic is heavy, it can be almost impossible to avoid the sunken lid, adding it felt like a bomb going off under his car.

Transportation services told us the chamber belonged to Bell and that it was up to the private utility to fix it. We thought it sounded like an abdication of responsibility, and that the city should have been more, uh, encouraging.

Maybe somebody else did, too. Less than a week after our column, we drove past and saw that the area around the chamber had been smoothed out with asphalt. It’s a temporary fix, but better than nothing.

Our June 13 column was also about a problem on Kingston Rd. — construction road signs advised westbound drivers to merge into the inner lane, west of Main St., even though the job was completed months earlier.

A gaggle of black-and-orange pylons were also left behind to clutter the sidewalk, obstruct traffic and amount to an unnecessary nuisance.

A city official told us they’d soon vamoose, and he wasn’t kidding. The signs and traffic barrels were gone within a couple days.

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