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Reading Toronto post: ad nauseam
An article from yesterday’s National Post has been cross-posted on Reading Toronto’s website. It focuses on how Toronto’s planning...
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Commentary: It’s Time to Break Up the Queen Streetcar
The Queen streetcar remains one of the TTC’s most prominent and well-travelled routes, but it is a shadow of its former self. Twenty-five years ago...
By James Bow -
Spacing buttons + anagram map in Eye and Now this week
It was nice to see both Eye Weekly and NOW cover the silliness of the TTC’s cease and desist letter to RobotJohnny and his anagram subway station...
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We Are Traffic — Bike Themed Art Show
This appeared in my OCAD mail box today — I don’t know anything about it, but maybe some folks might be passing by and want to pop in and see...
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Bike lane stunt on Bloor
Cycling activists are holding a bike-lane making party on Friday at 2pm at Bloor and Yonge (the above photo is an attempt to visualize what the lane would...
By Matthew Blackett -
Talks – Citizens and Cities in Japan
The Asian Institute at the Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place) at the University of Toronto is holding two upcoming talks that deal...
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SPACING: what do other cities have that the TTC needs?
Over the last few weeks the Spacing Wire has been posting a lot of transit-related articles and links. This is probably happening because of the research...
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Anti-postering by-law not so anti anymore
I’ve been interested in city politics since my early-teenage years. My grandparents were active political volunteers and got me involved in every...
By Matthew Blackett -
Vote for Mississauga
The people building “The Absolute,” the soon-to-be-landmark at Mississauga City Centre (the area surrounding Square One Mall), are asking the...
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To Jaywalk or not to Jaywalk
Over at Maisonneuve Magazine, Christopher DeWolf wrote about how Montreal is cracking down on jaywalking, but explores the idea that maybe jaywalking...
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Queen West Community Charrette
Cross-posted from the Eye Weekly blog. This Sunday, Active 18 — the Queen West West community group that’s formed to provide a voice for...
By Dale Duncan -
40th anniversary of Bloor-Danforth subway passes (almost) without comment
Forty years ago this past Sunday, the public boarded the first revenue trains operating on the Bloor-Danforth subway. The line, running between Keele and...
By James Bow
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered