Infrastructure
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IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Infrastructure referendums
The Toronto City Summit Alliance held a roundtable event last Wednesday to discuss revenue tools that could reliably fund Metrolinx’s The Big Move...
By Adrian Lightstone -
G20: Hitting us where it hurts
It was an eerie experience traversing Toronto’s should-be-bustling downtown streets in the days leading up to the G20. But it wasn’t freedom I...
By Emma Feltes -
Complete Streets: How to build them
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a two-part series on Complete Streets. Check out Hilary’s first post from May 23, 2010. If we want...
By Hilary Best -
Complete Streets: What they are and why we need them
Conversations about the architecture of Toronto’s streets tend to be terribly divisive. You’re either a cyclist or a driver. A transit user or a...
By Hilary Best -
Toronto introduces first public pay toilets on waterfront
Mayor David Miller and Councillor Adam Vaughan cut the ribbon to Toronto’s first fully automated public toilet Wednesday morning. Curiosity forced me to...
By Nicole McIsaac -
TTC unveils Next Vehicle Arrival System
As commuters boarded the 505 streetcar at Broadview station this morning, they were greeted by Mayor David Miller and TTC Chairman Adam Giambrone as they...
By Nicole McIsaac -
Traffic lights don’t have to be ugly: designs Toronto could learn from
Could traffic lights get any uglier than on St. Clair? In the Infrastructure Fetish feature of the new issue of Spacing, I wrote a lament to...
By Sean Marshall -
Transport in Bogotá: Buses, Bikes, and Bans
Last month, I had the opportunity to visit Bogotá. As late as a year ago, I had never expected to visit Colombia, as it was not on my radar as an...
By Sean Marshall -
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...
By Dylan Reid -
Disco Road: The land that metric forgot
An old street sign in the foreground, with a newer metric speed limit sign and the Disco Road waste transfer station in the background. Disco Road, a...
By Sean Marshall -
Building Storeys — Architect Unveiled: T.C. Pomphrey and the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their ongoing Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that has been...
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STREET SCENE: Look Up 8
what’s up is down and vice versa. Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese