archive.is/xcdhN >A Toronto man who spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community park says he has no regrets, despite the city’s insistence that he should have waited for a $65,000 city project to handle the problem. The city is now threatening to tear down the stairs because they were not built to regulation standards. >Retired mechanic Adi Astl says he took it upon himself to build the stairs after several neighbours fell down the steep path to a community garden in Tom Riley Park, in Etobicoke, Ont. Astl says his neighbours chipped in on the project, which only ended up costing $550 – a far cry from the $65,000-$150,000 price tag the city had estimated for the job. >“I thought they were talking about an escalator,” Astl told CTV News Channel on Wednesday. >Astl says he hired a homeless person to help him and built the eight steps in a matter of hours.
Carson Cruz
Shitty design. It will cost the city more than $65k when someone steps on the end of one of those steps, the board lets go and they tumble down the hill.
Julian Collins
This. Needs a 4'x4' landing on the top and bottom. Needs to move one of those stringers to one end and add another to the other end. Both sides need handrails and and they need to be continuous graspable handrails which is code, albeit gay. Hopefully those posts are burried and concreted it. There is probably more that makes this dogshit but whatever. Guys a shit carpenter but I applaud his effort.
Caleb Jones
3 people had already slipped and fell, that's why he built it they already took the stairs down anyway.
Ayden King
This is just a little staircase to go to a little area that not many people go to and it was only supposed to be temporary.
It's not perfect, but the city was going to spend 200k on this. I say that much because it's a government project and those are incapable of coming in under budget, especially since it has an 85k swing in what they expect it to cost.
Owen Mitchell
>be delusional autist >build shitty wooden stairs that will break when some old fatass steps on it and impales themselves on the splinters >$550 job >argue with the people whose entire purpose is to handle the city's infrastructure >life's work complete Worst part is I live near there.
Chase Murphy
$65k is about 10x more expensive than a bad ass staircase there should cost.
Wyatt Hill
Thanks Sup Forums for reminding me why civil litigators and their clients deserve to be gassed.
Thomas Gomez
I don't see a wheelchair ramp, very problematic.
And where is the 42" horizontal clearance for the American tourists? Or as I call them the "freedom inclined"?
Robert Stewart
Even with everything I mentioned I could build a staircase here for 10k. Including sidewalk access and landings. 65k is bueracratic bullshit so some mayor can skim for "campaign contributions" and his cousin can make a boat load.
