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Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Taxi’s can be unique and identifying feature of a city that play an important part in the street-scape. As Montreal moves towards implementing its bylaw allowing advertisements on Taxis, Alanah Heffez reports on efforts to create an attractive design promoting the city<\/a>. The new bylaw is also inspiring some grumbling amongst taxi drivers who report some cabs with the new signs have been mistake for pizza delivery cars.<\/p>\n

Spacing Montreal is inviting readers to take part in its first ever reader survey<\/a> of favourite parts of the city. Categories focus around civic initiatives, public personalities and hidden corners of the urban fabric.<\/p>\n

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Spacing editor Sean Micallef generated a great discussion this week about taking the cycling movement to the next level in Toronto. In an appeal to cyclists<\/a>, Micallef advocates that riders acknowledge the political nature of everything they do and that accordingly they must approaching sharing the roadways as part of a sensible dialogue with drivers. Is there an onus on cyclists to promote better behaviour amongst fellow riders?<\/p>\n

Major changes are coming to Toronto’s iconic St Lawrence Market as the winning design<\/a> was announced this week for the redevelopment of the 1960’s era north market building. Spacing’s Nicole McIssac covers the announcement and showcases the exciting new plan.<\/p>\n

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As part of an always great events series, Veronica Simmonds profiles World Naked Bike<\/a> day and public consultation<\/a> on the Halifax Central Library.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Snapshots feature this week <\/a>focused on another distinctly Atlantic scene, this time in Saint John.<\/p>\n

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Evan Thornton covers two aspects of the city’s recently announced plans for the Centretown neighbourhood. In the first piece Thornton decries the city’s decision to widen Bronson Avenue<\/a>, a critical artery in the neighbourhood and already a barrier to pedestrians. On the other hand, Thornton commends the plan’s efforts to target surface parking lots<\/a>, which are not only unsightly, but also damaging holes in the urban fabric.<\/p>\n

Continuing the question of transit funding for the Ottawa LRT plan, Peter Raaymakers covers the recent announcement by the Feds to contribute $600 million to the project. <\/a>While the funding announcement brings some surety to the plan, the real waiting game of working out the details and determining how the city will contribute its share has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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