Infrastructure
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Montreal Monday: Bixi Bike System, St-Jacques Escarpment, Photo de Jour
Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that...
By Jake Schabas -
How not to place a garbage can
This is getting ridiculous. I walked down Queen Street West last week with a couple of colleagues from the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, to find that the...
By Dylan Reid -
City staff discuss the placement of new transit shelters
In October, I wrote a post about how, on narrow sidewalks, the new transit shelters being installed by the city as part of the new street furniture...
By Dylan Reid -
A buried neighbourhood
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing illustrator and contributor Mathew Borrett has joined our blog team and will post occasionally about interesting finds in the...
By Mathew Borrett -
Toronto’s sewers: love them or … ignore them.
Toronto’s sewers have been in the news lately with the discovery of a crack in a massive trunk pipe buried underneath the Don Valley. Should we...
By Shawn Micallef -
Transit Furniture Sign O’ The Times
NEW YORK — The American obesity epidemic always seems most visible in my native Midwest — but evidence of the national widening can be found...
By Liz Clayton -
TTC launches next vehicle arrival program at Spadina Station
Need some confirmation of your information for your transportation (from) Spadina station? The TTC has unveiled today a new next vehicle arrival pilot...
By Mike Bulko -
New transit shelters eating into sidewalk space
New TTC shelter at Queen West and Peter In recent weeks, while walking on routes which have been familiar to me for years on Queen Street West and Hoskin...
By Dylan Reid -
Do the shuffle
Councillor Joe Mihevc‘s unfortunate and undeserved ousting as chair of the Community Development and Recreation Committee and Councillor Michael...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Think of the children
In the district of Greenwich in London, England, a lot of the speed limit signs in residential areas have pictures beneath them drawn by children. Turtles...
By Monika Warzecha -
Giambrone sounds Metrolinx privatization alarm
TTC chair Adam Giambrone is sounding the alarm on the potential for provincially-mandated privatization of public transit just hours after the launch of...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Public Toilets
I was very grateful to find this automated toilet when I was wandering around Paris in June. As they say, when you got to go … Public toilets are...
By Dylan Reid