Walking
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 078, Bike Month
It’s Bike Month! It’s a time we celebrate cycle culture in Toronto and surrounding cities and towns. At least officially. Despite some...
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Book launch of expanded and updated edition of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The...
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Anatomy of a bus shelter removal
During the week of December 2, 2023, the City of Toronto removed a TTC transit shelter at Dundas Street East and Sherbourne Street, in Moss Park. The...
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REID: 10 walking improvements in Toronto over the past 10 years
Walk Toronto was founded ten years ago, in 2013 (I was one of the founders and am still a member of the steering committee). It’s a grassroots, volunteer...
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Public Washrooms: The gift that keeps on giving
The holiday season is well underway, and many retailers are racing to keep their storefronts open for longer hours. Despite this, there is one pivotal...
By Jessie Ye -
OP-ED: Road Safety for All — What’s Not to Like?
By Albert Koehl and Roger Morier, road safety advocates and members of the We Belong on Bloor campaign of Community Bikeways. There’s nothing new about...
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REID: The pedestrian blood sacrifice
In the early 2000s, I moved into a new condo building in the Garment District south-west of Queen and Spadina. The area had been mostly an employment area...
By Dylan Reid -
I visited public toilet paradise and it was heaven – why can’t Canada do this?
I found public pee paradises and their names are Hong Kong and Japan. Public washrooms, or lack of by policy choice, in Canada has been my pet thing for a...
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Walk Toronto marks 10 years with a walk-and-talk on Oct. 1
Walk Toronto, a grassroots, volunteer advocacy group dedicated to giving a voice to pedestrians in Toronto in order to make Toronto a better city for...
By Dylan Reid -
OP-ED: “Vision One” – killing pedestrians one at a time
On the Friday of the Civic Holiday weekend, a woman was struck and killed crossing Vaughan Road at Atlas Ave, just up the street from me. It was bound to...
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OP-ED: Kensington Market needs its streets fixed, not redesigned
It’s been a bad month for place-keeping in Kensington Market. First the Kensington Market Community Land Trust’s (KMCLT) attempt to purchase two buildings...
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EVENT: Cross-Canada book tour for Larissa Fassler’s Viewshed
Last year I had the pleasure of visiting the Berlin studio of Canadian artist Larissa Fassler. I’ve been following her work for some years and...
By Shawn Micallef