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By Dylan Reid

  • Raising the road to meet the sidewalk

    There’s an interesting little piece of infrastructure innovation on the west side of University Ave. at Orde St., just south of College in the...

  • City shying away from shared street on John

    Last fall, I took part in a walkabout along and around John Street with an urban planner who was working on a master plan for the Entertainment District...

  • 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...