By Dylan Reid
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Neither snow, nor ice, nor sleet will keep a kid from walking to school
Do children let bad weather stop them from walking to school? One of the reasons some parents give for driving their kids to school is the climate —...
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Looking under the hood of transportation policy
Our ideas about travel behaviour provide the foundation of transportation policy. Is rail transit really more attractive to potential users than buses...
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Separating bike lanes
Toronto needs separated bike lanes — on wide, fast roads such as the Richmond/Adelaide corridor, suburban Eglinton Avenue where the LRT will be...
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Wearing masks in public spaces
Wearing a mask has power, especially if it’s in public and as part of a group. Humans have known this for a long time, which is why masking the...
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REID: Getting sensible speed limits
The headline recommendation from a new Toronto Public Health Report, Road to Health: Improving Walking and Cycling in Toronto, is reducing speed limits in...
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Getting the infopillars under control
Ever since City Council absent-mindedly agreed to let Astral Media redesign their information pillars last summer, and then realized how obnoxious they...
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Around 40% of people in Toronto walk at least part of their commute
The new report from Toronto Public Health, The Walkable City: Neighbourhood Design and Preferences, Travel Choices and Health (PDF), provides a crucial...
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“The Walkable City”: a new report from Toronto Public Health
Yesterday, Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health released a new report by Toronto Public Health, The Walkable City: Neighbourhood Design and...
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Sunday curiosity: The two Gerrard St. Easts
Walking down Carlaw after I moved to the east end not long ago, I noticed something very strange – just south of Gerrard St. East and Carlaw, you...
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Has Mayor Ford opened the door to sustained transit funding?
Mayor Ford’s obsession with the Sheppard subway may have inadvertently broken open the political conundrum of sustained long-term funding for...
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The Design Review Panel looks at the InfoToGo Pillars
Yesterday (PDF), Toronto’s Design Review Panel looked at the new “InfoToGo” info/ad pillars installed by Astral Media as part of the...
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Beyond Speedbumps: other ways to calm traffic on residential streets
Last fall, I went on a community walk in Rivertowne, a new development north-west of Queen E. and Broadview that combines public and market townhouses...