Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities, though we’ll settle for some witty jibes against la Ville reine in the comments.
Murmur
Since it began in Kensington Market in 2003, the Murmur project has provided Torontonians with a unique way to experience their city. Scattered throughout Toronto’s neighborboods are bright green Murmur signs containing a phone number and code. Whoever stumbles upon these signs can dial the number from their cell phones to access stories told about the neighbourhood in which they find themselves. Shawn Micallef announces the creation of six new Murmur locations.
The Bike Train
Tammy Thorne gives us the scoop on the success of VIA Rail’s Bike Train, which allows bikers to bring their bikes aboard en route to destinations between Toronto and Niagara Falls during the summer months. Up to 500 people are estimated to utilize this energy-efficient alternative to driving this summer.
New TTC Maps
The Toronto Transit Commission has recently updated its subway maps, which have been designed to aid commuter navigation by providing more information than the 2007 version. Sean Marshall’s coverage of this new edition and the subsequent reader discussion, however, indicate that newer is not necessarily better. The font of the new maps is more difficult to read, and stations’ corresponding addresses as listed on the maps could be misleading to commuters.