
Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is compressed by a roller machine. Photo8 by Don Tai
Toronto Hydro had dug up a section of my neighbour’s boulevard when Bell Canada came in to install their fiber optic cables. Hydro dug up a section of asphalt, did the repair, poured gravel down the hole, then repaved with asphalt. A month later the gravel and asphalt has settled. The City of Toronto then dug up the complete boulevard and repaved the bottom layer with asphalt. They will later return to complete the top layer with a finer asphalt.
In Toronto there are specific names for the land between your private property and the road. On your private property is your driveway. This is where you drive your car from the street, onto your property and into your garage, where you store your car.
From your private property, there is the sidewalk. This is made of concrete and allows anyone to walk beside the road, in relative safety from cars. Of course pedestrians have to watch out for cars backing out of and driving into their driveways. The sidewalk is city property. It is illegal to park your car on the sidewalk, as it blocks pedestrians. Home owners are legally required to shovel the snow off the sidewalk in winter.
Between the sidewalk and the road is the boulevard. This is city property but home owners need to shovel the snow in the winter. Legally you cannot park your car on the boulevard. The boulevard in front of your driveway is asphalt. The boulevard not in front of your driveway but in front of your house will be grass. All utility boxes, such as cable, will be housed on the boulevard grass area.
The road, or roadway, is made of asphalt and is city owned and maintained. You can park on the roadway in my area of Toronto for up to 4 hours maximum. If a neighbour complains and a city parking authority arrives in the middle of the night you will get a parking ticket.

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house has been removed. A large dump truck starts to pour new asphalt. Photo1 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house has been removed. A large dump truck starts to pour new asphalt. Photo2 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is smoothed out by workers. Photo3 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is smoothed out by workers. Photo4 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is edged flat by a portable vibrating machine. Photo5 by Don Tai
Before they edged the workers sprinkled some kind of chemical on the edges with what looked like a small mop.

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is edged flat by a portable vibrating machine. Photo6 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is compressed by a roller machine. Photo7 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is compressed by a roller machine. Photo8 by Don Tai

Boulevard repaving, Toronto, Canada. The boulevard asphalt on my neighbours house is compressed by a roller machine. Photo9 by Don Tai