Transit
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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...
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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...
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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 -
OP-ED: Electric Vehicles and the Federal Sales Standard
Electric cars are in the news, though it’s hard to call them new. Torontonians were impressed when they first saw an electric car on city streets … in...
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LORINC: We built it, but now will we ride it?
As befits a fall when the Blue Jays have again become contenders, the $10 billion-plus question hanging over the soon-to-be-opened Crosstown LRT is...
By John Lorinc -
Rip the bandage off rapidly, please
There’s a glaring irony about the city’s messily disintegrating priority bus lane plan, which landed at executive committee yesterday...
By John Lorinc