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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

LORINC: Toronto’s road safety shame

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LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum  — The contrast could scarcely be starker: with yet another death... Read More

Athletic traffic planning: Moving thousands of fans on game day

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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

The wrong answer to a tragic death of a boy walking home from school

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On Tuesday, February 27, around 3:30 PM, Duncan Xu, an 11-year old boy, was struck and killed by a motorist in a residential... Read More

“Distracted walking” laws make no sense

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The spectre of “distracted walking” apparently haunts our streets. The scare has been raised again through a private... Read More

REID: “You cannot talk fatalities down” – international insights on walking and cycling

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When I asked Anders Lie, the Swedish expert on the Vision Zero traffic safety program, about cities (like Toronto) where politicians... Read More