{"id":9402,"date":"2011-02-19T04:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:31","slug":"spacing-saturday-over-fenced-bike-lane-backlash-and-migrations-of-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/02\/19\/spacing-saturday-over-fenced-bike-lane-backlash-and-migrations-of-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Over-Fenced, Bike Lane Backlash and Migrations of the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<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 Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3420\/3201165959_ed1477a6ba_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/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><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>After a visit to the neighbourly east coast, Erin O&#8217;Connell asks the question are our cities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/02\/13\/our-urban-environment-is-over-fenced\/\">over-fenced?<\/a> In doing so she opens up an interesting debate about why we fence and what the implications are for our communities.<\/p>\n<p>The second instalment of Spacing Ottawa&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/02\/17\/chinatowns-lucky-eight-with-eric-darwin-and-gowalla\/\">Gowalla walking tours<\/a> was posted this week, this time focusing on the Chinatown neighbourhood. Gowalla tours allow users to follow a walking tour from their smartphone.<\/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>Crystal Melville used Valentine&#8217;s Day to collect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/02\/14\/for-the-love-of-the-city-2\/\">testimonials<\/a> from readers about how and where they have found love for and in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Feltes discusses the results of the recently held\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/02\/14\/first-bikeways-community-engagement-session-sparks-new-vision-for-a-bike-friendly-institutional-district\/\">bikeways<\/a> forum by four of Halifax&#8217;s largest\u00a0institutional\u00a0land users on how to create better bike infrastructure in the institutional\u00a0district\u00a0of the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/02\/03\/from-the-vaults-the-public-gardens\/  \"><\/a><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>Dylan Reid provides a fascinating look inside the transportation talk that took place at last week&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/02\/15\/gta-summit-transportation-notes-radical-mccallion-torontos-mohawk-and-more\/\">GTA Summit<\/a>. Discussion ranged from bold ideas on how to empower Metrolinx to expressions of hope for the implementation of the region-wide Presto fare card.<\/p>\n<p>As Toronto struggles with &#8216;war on the car&#8217; rhetoric, Jake Schabis reports on similar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/02\/16\/stories-from-the-big-apple-new-york-citys-bike-lane-backlash\/\">push back<\/a> happening to new bike infrastructure all over New York City and that city&#8217;s different political response.<\/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>Spacing Montreal talked a lot about heritage preservation this week. Alanah Heffez discusses how some of the most important victories in heritage preservation come in the form of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/02\/12\/heritage-preservation-procedure-over-postcard\/\">procedural victories<\/a> rather than simply preserving postcard settings. 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In doing so she opens up an interesting debate about why we fence and what the implications are for our communities. The<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/02\/19\/spacing-saturday-over-fenced-bike-lane-backlash-and-migrations-of-the-rich\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Over-Fenced, Bike Lane Backlash and Migrations of the Rich&#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":[859,4706,6048,53,5825,5707,287,4446,4614,5519,735,149,6047,125,744,153,5846,5925,151,152,6049,6050],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-bike-infrastructure","tag-blog-network","tag-brian-brooks","tag-chinatown","tag-crystal-melville","tag-devin-alfro","tag-dylan-reid","tag-east-coast","tag-emma-feltes","tag-erin-oconnell","tag-guillaume-st-jean","tag-halifax","tag-jake-schabis","tag-montreal","tag-new-york-city","tag-ottawa","tag-saint-sauveur-church","tag-smartphone","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-transportation-talk","tag-valentines-day"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Over-Fenced, Bike Lane Backlash and Migrations of the Rich - 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\/02\/19\/spacing-saturday-over-fenced-bike-lane-backlash-and-migrations-of-the-rich\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Over-Fenced, Bike Lane Backlash and Migrations of the Rich - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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