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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 083, The War on Bikes
With Premier Doug Ford’s repeated promises to rip up bike lanes in Toronto, and possibly even other Ontario cities and towns, we’ve decided to...
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REID: Ford’s attack on bike lanes is also a planning problem
A lot of good reasons against Ontario premier Doug Ford’s plans to not only block many planned bike lanes but rip up some existing one have been put...
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OP-ED: Private cars are not the accessibility solution High Park needs
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning in High Park, cyclists are lapping the loop while families stroll along the winding sidewalks. There isn’t a car in sight...
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Why is the Board of Trade shilling for The Big Doug?
There are so many sensible reasons to not build a Toronto by-pass tunnel — what we at Spacing have dubbed `The Big Doug’ after Boston’s...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 082, Toronto’s political gridlock
This month, we respond to Doug Ford’s stated plan of banning new bike lanes in Ontario municipalities and building an underground highway from...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 081, Talking Transit ’24
It’s been a while since we had a good, old-fashioned transit talk with friends of the show Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor...
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OP-ED: Avenue Road – a bad way to make good roads
If there is a good way to make city streets safe, Avenue Road is a bad example. By the time a proposed interim safety plan for Avenue Road reached City...
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OP-ED: What the Province’s takeover of the Gardiner and DVP really means
Much-needed repair work to the western portion of the Gardiner Expressway began this spring, sparking a lot of consternation about the disruptions to...
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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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OP-ED: Addressing Toronto’s congestion will take more than technology
In a recent ranking index, Toronto is listed as the third worst congested city in the world (after London and Dublin). The metric used by the company...
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OP-ED: When Process is the Enemy of Progress
Politicians and government bureaucrats love process. Let’s not rush to blame them, though, because there’s a lot to love. Carrying out a...
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The debate about e-scooters on Toronto streets will speed up in 2024
Ontario’s first attempts to keep pedestrians safe on our roads began a century ago in 1923 with the passage of the Highway Traffic Act. Back then, the...
By Glenn Miller