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Public space catch-all post
Here are a number of articles from the last few days: Trash: A recommendation that York and Durham regions’ trash be incinerated will likely cause...
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New Streetcars More Likely in TTC’s Future
This past Wednesday, TTC Commissioners decided to rebuild only 100 CLRVs of its fleet of 196. The rebuilds would begin in 2007 and ramp up to 30 cars per...
By James Bow -
Spadina Streetcar Operating Below Full Potential?
In discussing the TTC’s proposal for multiple-unit operation, transit activist Steve Munro notes that coupling two streetcars together as a means of...
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To Hide and Protect
Royson James has a great piece in the Toronto Star today critiquing the 2.4-metre-high cedar fences being erected around Toronto police stations. These...
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TTC promotions
Ed Drass of the Metro daily transit paper has a column today on the TTC’s promotional ideas. The column includes a nod to Spacing‘s...
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Calming Traffic
A different traffic culture from India. Via: Space & Culture
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Don Jail Redux
To continue last week’s wire thread (with pictures), the Stroll column that came out this week in Eye has more about the jail and can be read here...
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Public Meetings Ahead and Behind
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. The public will have a chance to discuss what to do about the Scarborough RT at a meeting to be held in the Scarborough...
By James Bow -
The Centre Cannot Hold
The future is in Scarborough! Our friend’s at the Toronto Free Gallery are opening an exhibition that “poses the question—Is our future...
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The winner is The Beach
Over 2,200 people voted on whether to brand their street signs with “The Beach” or “The Beaches” — 58% voted for the...
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Who says Torontonians are cold-hearted?
Who says Torontonians are cold-hearted? BlogTO has a great little post about Annex residents piling carboard boxes and spare sheets below a lamppost. The...
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T.O.’s Expo bid, the Metropass, the suburbs
A few links to articles in the Toronto Star today: With the city set to decide late next month whether to back a bid for the Expo 2015 world’s fair...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered