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Paying for transit in the GTHA: minor options
The CivicAction report (PDF) on reliable transit funding lists a variety of options that would raise smaller amounts of money for building new transit...
By Dylan Reid -
Thursday’s headlines
PLASTIC BAG BAN • Plastic bag ban in legal limbo [Toronto Sun] • Plastic bag ban fight could head into ‘uncharted territory’ as council struggles with its...
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Spacing co-presents “Gut Renovation” documentary
Gut Renovation by Su Friedrich – Trailer from Images Festival on Vimeo. WHAT: Screening of “Gut Renovation” followed by on-stage...
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Funding transit in the GTHA, addendum: transit fare surcharge
One option that was not discussed in the CivicAction report on transit funding for the GTHA, but which I suspect will end up being part of the discussion...
By Dylan Reid -
Wednesday’s headlines
JARVIS BIKE LANES • City council kills Jarvis bike lanes [Toronto Sun] • Jarvis bike lanes to be removed after last-ditch council effort to save them...
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All Spacing shirts 20% off this week
WHAT: 20% off all Spacing t-shirts WHEN: Today until Monday(Oct 2-8) WHERE: on Spacing’s e-store COST: $20 before taxes and shipping It’s time...
By Mike Bulko -
STREET SCENE: Fleet Street Turn
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Urban Planet: HavvAda
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel
EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA 4: Regional sales tax
The last of the “big four” revenue tools for transit funding identified in the CivicAction report is a regional sales tax. In the increasing...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: The death knell of Metrolinx?
In case you didn’t notice it, that little puff of smoke receding over the horizon this fall is Metrolinx’s $50 billion Big Move investment strategy...
By John Lorinc -
Tuesday’s headlines
TRANSIT Toronto’s long awaited transit conversation begins [Globe & Mail] Highway toll, fuel tax top city staff’s list of ways to fund...
By Jonathan Zettel
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered