{"id":1330,"date":"2008-08-26T07:21:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/08\/26\/toronto-tuesday-mopeds-a-hidden-park-and-dandyhorse\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:52:48","slug":"toronto-tuesday-mopeds-a-hidden-park-and-dandyhorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/26\/toronto-tuesday-mopeds-a-hidden-park-and-dandyhorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tuesday: Mopeds, a hidden park and Dandyhorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/08\/summerhill-ghosts.jpg\" alt=\"summerhill-ghosts.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, <a href=\"www.spacing.ca\/wire\">Spacing Toronto<\/a>. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/08\/25\/mopeds-in-beijing\/\">Mopeds in Shanghai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their functionality mopeds are somewhere between bikes and motorcycles. Their batteries are charged electrically and they don\u2019t come with the licensing and safety requirements of larger motor bikes. Having recently spent some time exploring Shanghai by moped, Megan Hall explores the delights and downfalls of the means of transportation, and its absence in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/08\/21\/getting-to-ireland-park\/\">Ireland Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A stroll through the streets of any city is bound to lead to discoveries of places tucked away from sight, but rarely are one\u2019s discoveries public city projects that have been made inaccessible to its citizens. Such is the case, however, with Toronto\u2019s Ireland Park. Dylan Reid reveals the unlikely whereabouts of this park that was designed to commemorate the landing of thousands of desperate Irish immigrants who escaped the Irish famine in 1847.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/08\/22\/toronto-bike-mag-set-to-launch\/\">Dandyhorse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Thursday will be the official launch of Toronto\u2019s exciting new bike magazine, \u201cDandyhorse.\u201d Named after the 19th century predecessor to the modern bicycle, this magazine aims to serve as \u201ca one-stop-shop for anyone who loves bicycles in Toronto,\u201d addressing current and prospective issues relating to the city\u2019s sizable biking community.  Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/dandyhorse.ca\/\">website<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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Their batteries are charged electrically and they don\u2019t come with the licensing and<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/26\/toronto-tuesday-mopeds-a-hidden-park-and-dandyhorse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto Tuesday: Mopeds, a hidden park and Dandyhorse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"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":[287,1992,1466,2714,125,1351,32,152,830],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-dylan-reid","tag-ireland","tag-location","tag-megan-hall","tag-montreal","tag-shanghai","tag-spacing-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-transportation-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto Tuesday: Mopeds, a hidden park and Dandyhorse - 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\/2008\/08\/26\/toronto-tuesday-mopeds-a-hidden-park-and-dandyhorse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto Tuesday: Mopeds, a hidden park and Dandyhorse - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. 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