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From Bach to Transport: Leipzig holds a key to the future of cities & Canadians should pay attention

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The International Transportation Forum is an inter-governmental organization of the OECD. It holds a summit of transport ministers... Read More

Game day transit planning

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When the Leafs or Blue Jays play a home game, Doug Tuira doesn’t watch to see if Auston Matthews will score an overtime winner or... Read More

LORINC: The time to plan for the driverless revolution is now

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During a week when the city was buzzing with thousands of tech types here for the ritual in-gathering that is the Collision... Read More

Is it time for Canadian cities to think about road pricing? Put it to the people and find out.

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Editor: With congestion grinding cities down and road pricing hitting political buffers, is there a better route to a solution... Read More

Can we stop talking about congestion? It’s not the point

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This is probably a pointless plea, but can we stop talking about congestion? Our conversations about transportation in Canadian urban... Read More

We need to talk about cars

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When we plan for our transportation future, whether we’re talking at the municipal, regional or provincial level, there’s an elephant... Read More

LORINC: Keesmaat latest candidate to dream of a Gardiner-free future

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If the City of Toronto has an evergreen municipal election issue — besides our ritualistic self-flagellation about transit — it has... Read More

LORINC: Breaking down Doug Ford’s impossible, ridiculous, scandalous subway to Pickering

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Because we here in Spacing’s bustling newsroom like to provide informative and constructive analysis to politicians of all stripes, we... Read More

LORINC: What Toronto should learn from Hamburg’s self-driving shuttle pilot

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HAMBURG, GERMANY — At some point in 2019, the first of three curiously upright shuttle vehicles will begin tooling around a 3.6km loop... Read More

LORINC: Sidewalk Labs, autonomous vehicles, and the persistent myth of driver error

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LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum  — When Sidewalk Labs unveiled its plans for Toronto’s... Read More