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Saturday’s headlines
PROPANE FIRE • City crews take over Sunrise cleanup [ Toronto Star ] • City takes over Sunrise Propane site [ Globe and Mail ] • City...
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Pedestrian scramble time-lapse
Spacing teamed up with the highly-regarded photoblogger Sam Javanrouh to create a fun time-lapse of the new Yonge-Dundas pedestrian scramble (see below)...
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A pedestrian lobster trap
A massive new residential development is taking shape in the railway lands on the west side of Spadina, just north of Lake Shore Boulevard and the...
By Dylan Reid -
Friday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Yonge and Dundas transforms into scramble intersection [ Toronto Star ] • ‘Organized chaos’ marks city’s first...
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Ready, set, scramble!
The scramble intersection at Yonge and Dundas was activated this morning. Pedestrians were slightly confused early on, but by the time the TV cameras and...
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Dept. of Funny Signs: Personal Construction
A personal construction zone at Wellington and Bay.
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Thursday’s headlines
TRANSIT • Metropass users will lose free parking [ Toronto Star ] • TTC scraps free parking [ Toronto Sun ] • TTC streetcar search at...
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Spacing summer-fall release party Sept. 9th
WHAT: Summer-Fall 2008 release party WHEN: Tuesday, September 9th, 8pm-12:30am WHERE: Canadian Corps, 201 Niagara St., south of King, west of Bathurst HOW...
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One giant diagonal step for pedestrians
Starting on Thursday, pedestrians will be able to cross the intersection of Yonge and Dundas diagonally, without worrying about cars. The City is ready to...
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Wednesday’s headlines
TRANSIT • German firm looks to bid on derailed TTC deal with Bombardier [ Globe and Mail ] • TTC to seek new bids on streetcar contract [ CBC.ca...
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TTC reopens streetcar bid
As mentioned here on Spacing Toronto in July, the TTC rejected the two remaining TTC streetcar replacement bids by Bombardier Transportation (as its...
By Sean Marshall -
Advertising in bike lanes
For those of you still on vacation (or you have the ability to listen to radio while at work), I just finished a half-hour appearance on Ontario Today...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered