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