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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Sean Marshall

  • TTC reopens streetcar bid

    As mentioned here on Spacing Toronto in July,  the TTC rejected the two remaining TTC streetcar replacement bids by Bombardier Transportation (as its...

  • Discussions on the new Metronauts website

    Metronauts, the community transportation discussion group, has developed a new website aimed at furthering the discussion of transit in the Greater...

  • Downsview explosion and contemplating the silent freeway

    Keele and Highway 401 this afternoon. Update#1: please see the comments for more links to images and videos of last night’s explosion. Update #2: At...

  • Shoo, Blue 22

    Long dormant after a turbulent initial Environmental Assessment phase, it appears that Blue 22, the proposed plan for an airport rail link, has awoken and...

  • Old Markham and Heritage Estates

    After visiting the “Downtown Markham” site last Saturday, I went on to the old village of Markham. What’s interesting is the lack of...

  • “Downtown” Markham

    Last Saturday, I explored the latest in the “instant downtowns” that now encircle Toronto, wedged in between Highways 7 and 407, Warden and...

  • Road Trip: Boston’s “T”

    A crowded Green Line train at Park Street Station (Note: Recently, my computer crashed and I had trouble finishing my posts on Spacing Toronto of the road...

  • Road Trip: Boston’s Big Dig

    A post on the big dig for Spacing could not have come at a more opportune time with the recent announcement of a concrete plan to tear down part of the...

  • Road Trip: Upstate New York

    On Victoria Day weekend, myself, accompanied with a few friends headed off on a road trip to Boston, passing through several Upstate New York cities on...

  • Filling the Finch Station Lot

    Astroboyboy123 posted this interesting time lapse video last week on YouTube of commuters arriving at one of the Finch Subway station’s parking lots...

  • A walk through Downtown Brampton

    Downtown Brampton, with the 1880s Dominion Building and the Rose Theatre behind. I grew up in the suburban city of Brampton, just north-west of Toronto...

  • TTC STRIKE: In the ‘burbs (and where are the pickets?)

    I took a walk today to see what things were like at what should be TTC strike hotspots – the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 headquarters, and...