By Dylan Reid
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Public and private infrastructure in action (imagined and real)
The Twitterverse recently led me to an interesting blog post that pointed out how, in the Bourne movies, the Jason Bourne character “uses public...
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Event Guide: Walking Strategy Designer’s Forum
How can Toronto’s design community contribute to making Toronto a better city for walking? To help get the City’s new Walking Strategy off the...
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Informal infrastructure and haunted house in Scarborough
In late September, I had the privilege of sitting in on one of the walkability studies that are taking place in conjunction with the City’s Tower...
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The new zoning bylaw: a confusion of bases
1545 Eglinton Ave West by Kevin Steele A few weeks ago I wrote about the project to create a new comprehensive zoning bylaw for Toronto. In an effort to...
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Don’t park that scooter on the sidewalk
With the expansion of the use of scooters in the city (Vespa is the most famous brand), I noticed a lot more of these scooters parked on sidewalks this...
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Toronto’s new unified zoning bylaw project
I went to an open house at City Hall last night about Toronto’s new zoning bylaw project. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, and the event...