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Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)
Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)

Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)

Date6/10/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Getting the message; Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group also posted signs over the Don Valley Parkway and Allen Expressway to mark Bike to Work Week.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0012131F
      Strong message: Motorists on the Gardiner Expressway yesterday met up with this banner, hung by Greenpeace activicts to protest pollution from cars and mark the start of Bike to Work Week
      Strong message: Motorists on the Gardiner Expressway yesterday met up with this banner, hung by Greenpeace activicts to protest pollution from cars and mark the start of Bike to Work Week
      Greenpeace
      6/10/1991
      Junior Protesters Want Cars To Slow Down, Waving signs and yelling at motorists to slow down, a group of 15 girls stood for more than an hour on the s(...)
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      Beaty, Keith
      9/7/1973
      Free pollution checks for cars, The Ontario Motor League will be offering motorists free pollution checks on their cars' exhaust systems beginning nex(...)
      Free pollution checks for cars, The Ontario Motor League will be offering motorists free pollution checks on their cars' exhaust systems beginning nex(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      5/28/1973
      Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads
      Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads
      Brazao, Dale
      5/16/1991
      It was slow, slow driving for Metro motorists yesterday and today as trucks and cars groped their way along snow-swept roads and highways. This line o(...)
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      Norris, Dave
      1/27/1971
      Motorists take pity on a stranded driver on Dewey Dr. at 7 a.m. today help him get his car moving. cation that driving conditions will be even worse a(...)
      Motorists take pity on a stranded driver on Dewey Dr. at 7 a.m. today help him get his car moving. cation that driving conditions will be even worse a(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      2/25/1965
      Up at Bay and Queen Sts. is almost conhese days as the almost endless road construction downtown area entangles many of the half-million motorists ste(...)
      Up at Bay and Queen Sts. is almost conhese days as the almost endless road construction downtown area entangles many of the half-million motorists ste(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      9/5/1978
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      Bezant, Graham
      10/25/1977
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      Two cars were trapped on the crumbling bridge on Friday night and one of the motorists spent an anxious four hours on the roof of his car before being(...)
      Teskey, Frank
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      Absentminded motorists who can't remember where they parked their cars in the underground lot beneath Nathan Phillips Square will have the use of this(...)
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/6/1964
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      5/2/1963
      Line-up wasn't worth it: Motorists drove up to 100 kilometres, lined up 50 cars long ad waited as long as 12 hours, all in vain, for gasoline prices to drop at a Cargo service station
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      Bock, Tony
      5/15/1983