Transit
Transit First – Ridership or Coverage
By Sean GillisHALIFAX – Transit offers communities and residents several benefits. Three of the most important benefits are mobility, less... Read More
Cartographically Speaking – City Clock (Broadway-City Hall station)
By Avery Titchkosky
Click here to see the full image. The city is multi-dimensional. One of the main dimensions is time. Built up of layers of schedules â€... Read More
LORINC: An adult conversation about transit, redux
By John Lorinc
Last week, I proposed in this space three key moves that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals could make to signal their seriousness about... Read More
That time when Toronto’s subway was the best in North America
By Shoshanna Saxe
With this post, Spacing Toronto welcomes a new contributor, Shoshanna Saxe. Shoshanna is a proud Torontonian and a civil engineer... Read More
Video Vancouver: The Mayors’ Council Vision for Regional Transportation
By Yuri Artibise
The Mayors’ Council, representing 23 local elected governments in Metro Vancouver, have worked together to develop a common... Read More
Cycling in Bonn, Germany: Lessons for Ottawa
By Spacing
With summer looming my thoughts turn to climbing aboard my bike and zooming along the newly bare streets and pathways. Â I love riding... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 5: The bottom line on the Scarborough subway
By John Lorinc
During tonight’s provincial election debate, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath will spend plenty of time accusing Kathleen Wynne and the... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 4: Won’t somebody think of Bombardier?
By John Lorinc
According to the November, 2012, master agreement signed by Metrolinx, the City of Toronto and the TTC, the four-line LRT project... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 3: Ignoring the projected high costs and low ridership
By John Lorinc
When Toronto city council convened in July, 2013, to make a clear decision on the Scarborough subway conversion, City staff provided... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 2: “It’ll be over my dead body that Scarborough goes wanting for high speed transit”
By John Lorinc
On the surface, last summer’s council show-down over the Scarborough subway proposal was the culmination of a sustained political... Read More