Walking south along Yonge Street

Air-conditioned luxury tour buses and poorly-maintained shipping trucks
assault your ears.

Street kids with a portable stereo.
Garbage can hinge lids clanging.
Intersections and sound collisions.
Aided by the blinding afternoon sunlight, confusion and stress levels increase.

However, the rhythmic variations of cars passing over the streetcar rails is
a classic Toronto soundmark
('bidump, bidump', 'bidump......bidump').

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