Traffic

Is the future of ride hailing friendly?

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Torontonians love Uber and Lyft. So much that there are an estimated 70,000 private transportation company (PTC) vehicles operating on... Read More

Podcast

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 041, Toronto’s endless transit circus

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It’s been a while since we delved into the always amusing world of Toronto transit. There have been major proposals from the... Read More

Transit

Transportation tech bros need to listen to the Vision Zero folks

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When we talk about Smart Cities, which seems to be all the time now, we hear about tensions between public governance and corporate... Read More

Streetscape

Toronto’s 10-year public art strategy

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Last week, Mayor John Tory dropped by OCAD to declare that 2021 would be the year of public art in Toronto. This announcement sets up... Read More

Walking

Run Score: Mapping Toronto’s Runnability

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There’s a lot of research that focuses on the walkability of Toronto neighbourhoods. However, there has been little conversation about... Read More

Traffic

MUKHERJEE: Why has Toronto police stopped enforcing traffic safety?

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Does one call it callous disregard for human life or rank incompetence? Or a combination of both? I am referring to the deaths of 48... Read More

Politics

LORINC: Toronto’s charter city conundrum

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For some time, I’ve harboured a growing impatience with the occasional campaigns urging greater institutionalized independence for the... Read More

Waterfront

LORINC: Waterfront Toronto’s power move on Sidewalk Labs

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From the moment last June when Waterfront Toronto chair Steve Diamond upstaged the much-hyped launch of Sidewalk Toronto’s Master... Read More

Culture

The Toronto Reference Library’s rich collection of Communist newspapers

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I am probably the last person you would expect to be perusing Communist literature. I come from a family of Mounties. I have worked on... Read More

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