Augusta Avenue’s earthy car retrofitted by Streets are for People.
Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.
Toronto’s transit system is due for a face-lift, and this will evidently be happening sooner than later, but at what cost? Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler summarizes funding issues pertaining to the launch of Metrolinx’s $50 billion dollar transit plan.
Continuing his Campus Perspectives series, Matthew Hague provides an account of the Ontario College of Art and Design. Situated close to Grange Park and the Art Gallery of Ontario, OCAD’s campus includes Will Aslop’s famous box-on-stilts building, which houses the design department.
As frightening as cycling in the downtown core of Toronto can be, the one advantage downtown cyclists have is that surrounding cars are at least somewhat used to sharing the road, whether they like it or not. This is not so in many of the city’s suburbs, where cyclists can feel like one in a million. Consequently, many suburb cyclists avoid what may seem like an immanent accident by riding off the roads. Monika Warzecha takes a look at the prevalence of sidewalk cycling in suburbs, and on a few downtown streets.