{"id":11066,"date":"2011-07-16T01:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T06:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:25","slug":"spacing-saturday-bold-transit-funding-neighbourhood-memories-and-the-car-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/07\/16\/spacing-saturday-bold-transit-funding-neighbourhood-memories-and-the-car-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Bold Transit Funding, Neighbourhood Memories and the Car in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts   from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal,   Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3592\/3366358893_642cb1f719_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sidebar-head-vancouver\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spacing reports on the bold plan by mayors in the Vancouver area to implement a small increase in the gas tax to help <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/07\/11\/metro-vancouver-mayors-make-bold-bid-to-fund-regional-transit\/\">fund construction of the Evergreen Line<\/a>. The debate highlights the need for new ways to bring sustained revenue to fund transit expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the transit theme, John Calimente reviews Kenneth W Griffin&#8217;s 2004 book <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/07\/12\/building-type-basics-for-transit-facilities\/\"><em>Building Type Basics for Transit Facilities<\/em><\/a>, a comprehensive look at what makes the best stations around the world successful.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a city lacking in common street furniture, Eric Darwin reports on a recent spate of shop owners setting out their own <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/07\/15\/citys-blind-eye-to-street-furniture-is-a-blessing-for-pedestrians\/\">informal public sidewalk seating<\/a> along the lines of the approach taken in New York&#8217;s Times Square. The project has been blessed by a blind eye from the City.<\/p>\n<p>In cycling heavy downtown neighbourhoods, the City of Ottawa&#8217;s recent removal of parking meters is causing a chronic <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/07\/12\/parking-meter-to-bike-stand-conversion-fails-as-predicted\/\">shortage of bike storage space<\/a>, something that Spacing&#8217;s Eric Darwin predicted over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Guild analysis and explores the opposition to a controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/07\/14\/hrms-next-big-bad-idea-widening-bayers-road\/\">road widening plan<\/a> that would significantly impact existing neighbourhoods for the benefit of suburban commutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>My City Lives<\/em> presents the sixth installment of the &#8216;David Miller, Transit Mayor&#8217;   series. This installment features a candid interview with Miller   reflecting on the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/13\/my-city-lives-david-miller-transit-mayor-part-vi\/\">role of the automobile<\/a> in the city during a winter drive to the lakeshore.<\/p>\n<p>Perpetually stuck in 1973 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/15\/so-pedestrian-toronto-mayor-bert-xanadu-weighs-in-on-yonge-street-revitalization-and-banning-pedestrians\/\">Mayor Bert Xanadu <\/a>takes   readers through a thoughtful reflection on his experience with the   conversion of Lower Yonge Street into a pedestrian only space in the   summer of 1971. Xanadu shares the lessons learned from the project and   plans moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Feet    hit the pavement for Walk the Region last weekend and Alanah Heffez    provided two posts this week reflecting on the experience. 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Spacing reports on the bold plan by mayors in the Vancouver area to implement a small increase in the gas tax to help fund construction of the Evergreen Line. The debate highlights the need for new ways<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/07\/16\/spacing-saturday-bold-transit-funding-neighbourhood-memories-and-the-car-in-the-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Bold Transit Funding, Neighbourhood Memories and the Car in the City&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[6526,4706,6531,2741,2159,4775,6529,6530,6525,6527,346,125,5261,5269,153,151,152,6528,148],"class_list":["post-11066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-bert-xanadu","tag-blog-network","tag-building-type-basics","tag-centre-dhistoire-de-montreal","tag-david-miller","tag-eric-darwin","tag-gas-tax","tag-jim-guild","tag-john-calimente","tag-kenneth-w-griffin","tag-mayor","tag-montreal","tag-new-yorks-times","tag-new-yorks-times-square","tag-ottawa","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-transit-mayor","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Bold Transit Funding, Neighbourhood Memories and the Car in the City  - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/07\/16\/spacing-saturday-bold-transit-funding-neighbourhood-memories-and-the-car-in-the-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Bold Transit Funding, Neighbourhood Memories and the Car in the City  - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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