Kill the Monster Garbage Cans - Email the Mayor!

Take action to be sure these things never take over our streets. Email the mayor, who is on record actually SUPPORTING these beasts, at mayor_miller@toronto.ca. Here is a nice template letter I made up, and used, that you can feel free to copy and paste:

Mr. Miller,

I am very discouraged to see that the city would consider such a wasteful project during a time when your office, the province and federal governments all encourage fiscal and environmental restraint. These garbage bins are a electrified, gleaming example of just the opposite message you're trying to set. Worst of all, unlike other messages, this one will be obvious to every driver, cyclist and pedestrian in the city should these things be approved.

The garbage cans are a potential failure waiting to happen:

-They block lines of sight for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists
-They hold less capacity (but more space for advertising)
-They draw city electricity to power the illuminated advertising (for shame!)
-They are confusing in design
-They add to the immense visual clutter already crowding the narrow landscape of Toronto with more needless advertising!

I have supported your vision of a new Toronto where back-office deals are a thing of the past. Where full disclosure and accountability will help to revive the city, and help press our case for more responsibiltiy under a new City of Toronto Act. The whole idea of these garbage cans seems to run contrary to that vision (at the very least, that is the optics of it). It smacks of the old "profits before people" mentality that doomed previous administrations.

Mr. Miller, I would urge you and your fellow councilors to vote down the possibility of these Monsters ever invading our street corners, and instead turn our efforts towards alternatives that benefit the city by helping to reduce waste on our streets, but do so while being cheap, unobtrusive and responsible to the environment.

Thank you,

UPDATE. The mayor's office has indeed read my email and it will be shared with the mayor himself! Proof that action still does count for something. Let us know if you email him too thedailynar@gmail.com