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Articles to help kill a Friday afternoon
TRANSIT • GO urges commuters to make own plans as strike looms [ Toronto Star ] • For City, TTC’s a big ticket [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
By Matthew Blackett -
I am the walrus… uh, crossing sign
I only dug up this image as a segue into an announcement about a new public art show opening on Toronto’s streets this week, but, gazing at it a...
By Leah Sandals -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: Feb 8, 2007
Getting out the muzzle Allan Crawford isn’t allowed to talk to me anymore. The outspoken Parks, Forestry and Recreation employee faced a...
By Dale Duncan -
Meet our Kindergarten Council
Our new City Council has only had a few meetings since their November election, so I momentarily forgot how immature and dysfunctional some of our finest...
By Matthew Blackett -
Walk21 Conference call for papers (and ideas)
In October, Toronto is hosting the major international conference on pedestrianism, Walk21. For contributions to this conference, they are looking for a...
By Dylan Reid -
If only Margaret Wente could have watched these in her youth…
We may have discovered where the inclination to spend an entire Sunday at TTC Camp comes from: the public transportation propaganda put out in 1970s by...
By Shawn Micallef -
A Sunday of immodest proposals
The Sunday Star had a few articles of note (since Tuesday is the best time to reflect on the Sunday paper): Why not shop the better way? Andrew Chung...
By Shawn Micallef -
Let’s call it Spadina North
There are a few stations in the subway system that have a sibling station with a connection to another subway line: St. George, Yonge-Bloor, Kennedy...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto Transit Camp wrap-up
On Sunday, nearly 100 Toronto transit enthusiasts converged on the Gladstone Hotel to take part in Toronto Transit Camp. The gathering was called an...
By Matthew Blackett -
An artist’s rendition: TTC makeover ideas
If you mixed these two together, what would Toronto get? Anyone who knows me well knows that my biggest pet peeves are bad public transit and bad design...
By Craig Cal -
Parliament when the ears hurt because it’s so cold
Sometime around 1:30 AM tonight while walking/running quickly up the super-cold and windy Parliament Street just north of Dundas, by the part of Regent...
By Shawn Micallef -
Does the Redpath have to go?
John Barber’s article in the Globe the other day compared the Redpath Sugar plant to the Island Airport as a major stumbling block on the road to...
By Ian Malczewski
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered