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Toronto Tuesday: Downtown relief, designing streets and drop-in centre woes

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2411960022_33380eba17.jpgEach Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.

City council boards the DRL bandwagon
Sean Marshall discusses the Downtown Relief Line, an unglamourous name for an otherwise exciting possibility for the transit system’s future. The line would alleviate pressure from existing subway lines, and address gaps in Transit City, the city’s transit growth plan.

Street signs of the times
Matthew Blackett reviews Toronto’s new street signs, as the City unveils them at intersections across the city. Other than a thumbs up for modularity and readability, he argues these signs lack much room for any neighbourhood character. Accessibility over individuality?

Harper ignores needs of Toronto’s most vulnerable
Adam Chaleff-Fraudenthaler talks budgets, decrying the lack of federal money in fighting poverty. With little improvements to income or housing security from the Harper (or provincial McGuinty) government, Adam holds that drop-in centres are forced to continue stretching their limited resources to service to an increasing number of people.

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