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By Dylan Reid

  • G20: Aftermath on Spadina

    In the aftermath of the Queen-Spadina mass arrest, Spadina north of Richmond was littered with the plastic cuffs used on those who were detained and then...

  • Dept. of Funny Signs: G20 overkill?

    I can understand why closed-down liquor stores around the G20 summit area might get boarded up this weekend, but for a clothing store (on Queen west of...

  • Event Guide: St. Clair Feet on the Street

    Toronto enjoys many main street pedestrian festivals over the course of the summer (Taste of the Danforth being possibly the most famous and...

  • Losing a city square

    In Toronto’s new Walking Strategy, adopted as official policy by city council just last year, one of the key strategy actions (5.6) under the...

  • Ontario auto insurance changes hit pedestrians, cyclists

    Anyone who doesn’t own a car, and the insurance that goes with it, is going to have fewer resources to deal with injuries if they are hit by a car...

  • Walking Amman

    Talk about putting Toronto’s walking issues in perspective — Toronto cycling activist Hannah Evans recently moved to Amman, Jordan to work...

  • Could Toronto lease out the Gardiner and DVP?

    There was an interesting article in the Star recently (with a misleading headline) about how Chicago’s chief financial officer arranged leases on...

  • Why did the police take aim at pedestrians?

    As pedestrian deaths started to mount to disturbing numbers in January, the response at first was a combination of concern, blame that was reasonably...

  • TORONTO STAR FRONT PAGE ALL-CAPS FAIL

    The Toronto Star today published an article on the front page, with the all-caps headline above the fold, “JAYWALKING CITY“. In the article...

  • Shell shock and paralysis

    Last week, as pedestrian deaths in the GTA mounted, several media outlets asked me how I felt about this seeming epidemic. I generally replied that I was...

  • CBC’s National focuses blame on pedestrians for getting killed

    CBC’s The National for Jan. 26 just ran a segment on the wave of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the GTA in the past three weeks. Without...

  • A week of pedestrian death: any explanation?

    As pedestrians deaths have mounted on a daily basis over the past week in the GTA (10 in the past 8 days), I’ve been asked more and more often what...