Transit
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Wicked transportation
Remember Wicked: For Good? This time last year the internet buzzed with analysis of the trailer before the second movie hit theatres. Now, as spooky...
By Emily Macrae -
Messy Transit?
In the book I recently co-edited, Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything, we didn’t get any contributions about public transit. The book explores the...
By Dylan Reid -
The story behind the transit doc Railfan
Across Toronto, millions of people rely on the TTC daily. Whether it’s for commuting to work or school, exploring the city, or visiting friends...
By Aiden Fung -
Election 2026: How to critically listen to a municipal candidate
This article begins a series by Christopher Balkaran on ways to approach and engage with the municipal election campaign. Growing up in Scarborough, I...
By Christopher Balkaran -
OP-ED: Can Toronto give itself a green light?
This op-ed launches our pre-election discussions of key issues ahead of Toronto’s October 26 municipal election. Our election issue will be...
By Antoine Belaieff and Kelly Rowe -
More housing near transit won’t solve Toronto’s affordability crisis
Onah Jung is a Toronto-based architect, urban designer, and founder of Studio Jonah. The City of Toronto recently revealed plans for more housing around...
By Onah Jung -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 93, Everything Eglinton
To compliment the latest Eglinton-themed issue of Spacing Magazine, we begin with a celebration. Our regular transit commentators Toronto Star columnist...
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NEW ISSUE: Crossing Town
We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be many weeks away, given its...
By Dylan Reid -
Photographing the Finch West LRT
I am not a daily commuter, but as a documentary photographer of Toronto’s urban fabric, I depend on the TTC to get me to far-flung areas of the city where...
By Peter MacCallum -
OP-ED: Toronto transit needs to build on what we have, not fall for old tropes
Transit planning is a long-term endeavour, not a one-time project with a single solution. In a municipal election year, we need to demand more from...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto’s door
In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6)...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban...
By Spacing Radio