-
York Region’s Rapidways: the good, the bad and the ugly
Viva Purple bus on new Highway 7 Rapidway I recently visited the first completed section of “Rapidway”, York Region Transit’s moniker...
By Sean Marshall -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
TRANSPORTATION TTC’s Spadina subway takes shape as politicians talk Scarborough [Toronto Star] Looking at transit success and failure [Globe & Mail...
By Stephen Brophy -
EVENT: Transportation Infrastructure Funding and Financing Summit
WHAT: Transportation Infrastructure Funding and Financing Summit WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 17-18, 2013 (registration starts at 7:30am) WHERE: Old Mill Inn...
By Spacing -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
TRANSPORTATION Toronto transit descends from tragedy to farce [Globe & Mail] Proposed Scarborough subway extension comes with risks, city planner...
By Kayla-Jane Barrie -
LORINC: Wynne offers up Murray as Scarborough subway punching bag
If the latest skirmish over the Scarborough subway had a leitmotif, it was that of the minister as loose cannon. “Ontario’s transportation minister [Glen...
By John Lorinc -
REID: Making it safer to walk to school
As is so often the case, it has taken a tragedy to get politicians talking about improving walking safety. This week, it was the killing of a high school...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
POLITICS Protesting Oshawa residents handcuffed at city council [Toronto Star] Hold on to your spreadsheets, Toronto’s annual budget war has...
By Stephen Brophy -
Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
POLITICS Rob Ford’s team stalls on releasing records [Toronto Star] Toronto mayoral poll: Chow, Tory, Stintz beat Ford head-to-head [Toronto Star] Fact...
By Stephen Brophy -
The tale of two Canadian children’s authors vs. the President of the United States
Once upon a time (by which I mean the late 1800s and early 1900s) stories about intelligent, anthropomorphized animals were all the rage. The trend had...
By Adam Bunch -
Blocking the Way: Railways and freeways are major barriers to pedestrians
Pedestrian crossing of GO Transit Stouffville Corridor, at Marilyn Avenue near Agincourt Station The biggest barrier to pedestrians and cyclists in...
By Sean Marshall -
CONCRETE TORONTO: The Sculptural Quality of Poured Concrete
Over the next several weeks, Spacing will be publishing a series of articles from Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties...
By Concrete Toronto -
Instaflaneur: late night bike rides, Toronto flooding, & following the water
In lieu of a vacation trip this season, it has been a summer of long long bike rides, mostly at night, around Toronto and sometimes up into the 905. This...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered