{"id":3635,"date":"2010-09-11T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:17","slug":"spacing-saturday-hurricane-earl-bridging-bixi-and-transit-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/09\/11\/spacing-saturday-hurricane-earl-bridging-bixi-and-transit-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Hurricane Earl, Bridging Bixi and Transit Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/54\/149198520_c37a40aa32_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"414\" \/><br \/>\n<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=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Hurricane Earl lashed the East Coast last week, Earth Sciences Professor and Spacing photo contributer Lawrence Plug <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/09\/07\/earl-in-action\/\">documented life in Halifax <\/a>as the storm passed over the city.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica Simmonds reports on the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/09\/09\/events-guide-commons-dance-party\/\">Commons Dance Party<\/a>, an event intended to celebrate the commons as a free public space at the end of summer.<\/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>Alanah Heffez tells the story her neighbourhood&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/09\/08\/the-bixi-gap\/\">push to get the Bixi<\/a> bike sharing program introduced to its of the part of the city and the ensuing bureaucratic tangle.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Alfaro reports on the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/09\/08\/car-free-neighbourhoods-week-from-the-montreal-urban-ecology-centre\/\">Car-Free Neighbourhoods Week<\/a> which aims to expose Montrealers to some of the car-free urban design experiments being tested in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"..\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Bolton and <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/09\/spacing-votes-weekly-a-civil-debate-fords-transit-plan-rossis-new-strategy\/\">Spacing Votes<\/a> follow the increasing post labour day pace of the municipal election,  covering both the new feel of the election in the Fall and the release  of front-runner Rob Ford&#8217;s transit plan.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Micallef continues his Toronto Flaneur series<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/08\/the-toronto-zoo-out-there-on-the-edge-of-the-city\/\"> at the Toronto Zoo <\/a>and explores its history, sense of place and role within the city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/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>Ottawa Mayoral hopeful <a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/08\/doucets-transit-plan-mind-the-gaps\/\">Clive Ducet unveiled his transit<\/a> plan for the city this past week. 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