Live board · Toronto
What Toronto is getting done
Real open tasks from members in Toronto, each with a budget attached. Post yours in a minute — local Taskers send fixed-price offers, and your money stays with Taskly until it's done.
Working in Toronto is a question of access, not distance. The old city is pre-war housing on narrow streets with public laneways running behind it, the core is towers where the service lift is booked days ahead, and it is the one municipality here where a full day of work is possible without a vehicle.
Access, not distance: what Toronto adds to a task
One municipality owns the whole street
Toronto has been a single-tier city since the 1998 amalgamation of six municipalities, so the arterial, the side street, the sidewalk and the by-law officer all answer to the same City. In Peel, York, Durham and Halton the main road in front of an address belongs to the Region while the street beside it belongs to the local town, and a question about occupying the curb has two possible owners. Here it has one.
The lane behind the house is the loading dock
The old Toronto grid is threaded with public rear laneways, an inheritance of the pre-war city that the post-1970 subdivisions in Mississauga, Vaughan and Brampton do not have. When the front of a Leslieville or Annex address is permit parking and, on the main streets, a streetcar track, the lane behind is where a van actually stops. Knowing which side of the house the work happens on changes the estimate.
Transit is a working tool, not a fallback
Toronto is the only city in this region with a streetcar network — tracks down Queen, King, Dundas and Spadina — and its subway and bus grid reaches most of the built-up area. Tutoring, cleaning, assembly and computer work can be carried across the city on a fare here. In Milton or Whitby two bookings in one day are far enough apart that a car does the work the subway does in Toronto.
Tasks come from Liberty Village, King West, Leslieville, The Annex, North York and Scarborough.