Infrastructure
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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 -
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...
By Sean Marshall -
Berlin: Ampelmann
I recently went on a trip to Paris and Berlin, and I’m going to post a few impressions and photos over the coming weeks. One of the first things...
By Dylan Reid -
ROM quietly raises admission prices… again
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum earlier today for a media view and was shocked to see that the admission price has quietly risen 10% or more across the...
By Leah Sandals -
BEIJING: Paths for the blind
Spacing correspondent Megan Hall is in Beijing this summer. Over the next few weeks, she will be sharing her observations of China’s capital as it...
By Megan Hall -
Exciting new trash bin graces NYC’s Union Square
NEW YORK — Though waste receptacle culture here in New York City regularly makes me hearken back longingly for Toronto’s more progressive (if...
By Liz Clayton -
Road Trip: A morning jog in Fredericton
Early in the morning after I arrived in Fredericton I got up and decided to explore a little bit of the city by going for a jog. Because of the conversion...
By Matthew Hague -
Bathurst Street Bridge: A Virtual Charrette
We’re going to try something new here on Spacing Toronto — a “virtual charrette” — though it often happens quite naturally...
By Shawn Micallef -
North York Mass bike ride this Sunday June 8 at 3pm
Join us for a fun-filled ride as we ride en masse through North York: it’s time to make every Toronto street a cycling street. START: 2300 Yonge...
By Tammy Thorne -
The future of the Gardiner Expressway
This post has been compiled by Matthew Blackett and Robin Chubb At a news conference today at Waterfront Toronto headquarters, it was officially announced...
By Matthew Blackett