Toronto's Union Station Rat Migration

[Victrola1]

 

Toronto's Union Station reno triggers rat 'spillover'

Rats displaced by digging are affecting downtown businesses

CBC News Posted: Nov 10, 2014 9:51 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 10, 2014 10:34 AM ET

It appears commuters aren't the only ones being displaced by the $1-billion renovation of Toronto's downtown Union Station.

All the digging during the massive project has displaced countless rats from their long-established burrows, said a pest control expert who appeared on CBC Radio's Metro Morning on Monday....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-s-union-station-reno-triggers-rat-spillover-1.2829684

[54light15]

They might be loooking for work in a French restaurant. There's a good one (The Select Bistro) not far away.

[blue streak 1]

They can migrate to Buffalo Central Station.

[ChuckCobleigh]

Maybe someone could get them in touch with Hamlin, Germany...get some advice or something.

[Firelock76]

Maybe the station's going to sink?  Any icebergs in Toronto?

[Deggesty]

ChuckCobleigh

Maybe someone could get them in touch with Hamlin, Germany...get some advice or something.

 

If the people involved hire someone associated with Hamlin, they certainly should pay him if he provides the desired result. I hope they have heard of the event that took place in Hamlin a few years back.

[ChuckCobleigh]

Deggesty

If the people involved hire someone associated with Hamlin, they certainly should pay him if he provides the desired result. I hope they have heard of the event that took place in Hamlin a few years back.

[gardendance]

Not for the first time I wonder what's unique about the construction at Toronto Union Station that makes the rats newsworthy. Why did noone feel they needed to write about any rat problems during any of the other construction in the neighborhood: CN Tower, Blue Jay stadium, and the many other nearby big buildings?

[54light15]

With the polar vortex last year, there sure were icebergs in the harbour. Not big enough to sink the Titanic, but still it was almost frozen solid! What they're doing at Union Station is digging out the basement to make a shopping concourse. I've been down there before construction started and there was machinery from 1918 when the building was built such as steam-to-water heat exhangers and air tanks with rivets the size of half-dollars. All that stuff has been scrapped I imagine. Plus lots and lots of asebstos! So I guess the construction was disturbing to the rats eating thier garbage.

"If it's garbage, why are we stealing it? "

"Shut up and eat your garbage!"