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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Craig Cal

  • “Streetcars for Toronto” – 35th Anniversary

    Forgive the belated posting, but this November marked the 35th anniversary of Streetcars for Toronto’s (SfT) successful fight to keep the streetcar...

  • TTC Service Cuts – an important public consultation and meeting

    (This is a map of potential TTC service cuts by Ian Trider via the Torontoist. Solid red lines are routes which may be entirely eliminated. Broken red...

  • My TTC is… basic access & basic mobility

    (This is a map of potential TTC service cuts by Ian Trider via the Torontoist. Solid red lines are routes which may be entirely eliminated. Broken red...

  • Help choose Toronto’s new LRVs — aka our new streetcars

    The past few months have been very exciting for Toronto’s transit users, with March’s announcement of the Transit City – Light Rail plan...

  • Postopolis!

    Four urban-themed blogs from four different cities, all similar in spirit to Spacing (BLDGBLOG from Los Angeles, City of Sound from London, Inhabitat from...

  • Come to the TTC’s 10th annual public meeting

    The TTC is inviting the public to give them ideas on how to improve service. We are looking for ideas on where and when to add new routes, or how we could...

  • Subway Life

    Ok, I’ll admit it. I have a staring problem. Whenever I ride the TTC, I look at people’s faces and wonder what their story is. It helps pass...

  • Help Build a Transit City Workshop

    The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) is currently in the midst of a series of community workshops centred on the City/TTC’s Transit City plan...

  • An artist’s rendition: TTC makeover ideas

    If you mixed these two together, what would Toronto get? Anyone who knows me well knows that my biggest pet peeves are bad public transit and bad design...

  • Sexy public transit, part II

    Sexy public transit? Beauty (and sexiness) is in the eye of the beholder, but rapid transit lines spread out all over the GTA in the next 10 years gets me...

  • Sexy public transit, part I

    Which proposal looks sexier: a Toronto-wide network of BRTs and LRTs (first map) or the Spadina subway extension (second map)? POTENTIAL FUTURE BRT/LRT...