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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Today’s Traffic News

    A story in the Toronto Star today showed that, despite the hype about gun-related deaths in Toronto, the car was deadlier than the gun in 2005. In...

  • Don’t Drink and Walk?

    An interesting study by Transport Canada shows that a significant number of pedestrians killed in traffic accidents are drunk, often extremely drunk...

  • Local Government

    Former Mayor of Toronto and Eye magazine city columnist John Sewell is running an interesting web site devoted to local government...

  • Walking News

    The City of Toronto has a program in place to add sidewalks on both sides of all arterial and collector roads in Toronto (not local roads). The work is...

  • Dreams of Front Street

    The Union Station precinct study (led by various architects and consultants) held a public meeting tonight to discuss options for re-shaping Front Street...

  • Union Station Precinct

    The City of Toronto is planning to revamp the precinct around Union Station — one of the most central and busy but also most neglected parts of...

  • New Orleans Installs Free Public Wi-Fi

    The City of New Orleans is installing free public Wi-Fi (wireless internet connection) throughout the city, by hanging simple, cheap, shoebox-sized boxes...

  • DIPS and other fun at City Hall

    New local street standards for Toronto A joint committee of Works and Planning today considered the “DIPS” report from staff which sets...

  • Toronto’s Governance

    There has been much talk recently that the City of Toronto’s governing structure needs to be reformed, and earlier this year the City appointed a...

  • Kingston Road LRT

    The TTC is proposing a new dedicated streetcar line in Scarborough along Kingston Road to Eglinton and then west to Kennedy station. They are asking for...

  • Student transit in Scarborough

    The Varsity, the University of Toronto student newspaper, has an interesting story in today’s issue about the difficulties facing students taking...

  • Union Station Precinct Meeting

    As part of the planned renovation of Union Station, the city is holding a “precinct study” to look at how to renovate the area around the...