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  • Gas tax cometh

    It seems like there has been a lot of transit-type news lately. So here’s another one, this time from today’s Toronto Star. “Nothing...

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  • Sewell on street signs

    John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...

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  • No to TVs in subway cars

    On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. Hats...

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  • We Heart Dufferin Grove Park

    Spacing editor Dale Duncan, writes in Eye this week: “From the bus stop outside Dufferin Mall, Dufferin Grove seems like many of the other 1,460...

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  • Mayor doesn’t need more power

    Spacing thinks the most public of public spaces in Toronto should be City Hall. It is where the beacon of local democracy should fly highest. There are...

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  • Reducing emissions in the GTA

    Environment columnist Cameron Smith asks, “Can the progress achieved by the Toronto Atmospheric Fund (TAF) in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in...

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  • What are we scared of?

    We love Christopher Hume. He is a valiant defender of the public realm. Sometimes he gets so excited about his cause that his writing becomes frenetic...

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  • NOW takes on smog

    Last week NOW ran an article on the top 10 things Toronto can do to fight smog in the city. The ideas may be unrealistic in the current political climate...

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  • Trashing EUCAN bins

    Toronto Star columnist Slinger wrote a great piece ripping apart the EUCAN monster garbage bins. And he didn’t stop the blame game there — he...

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  • Slow Street Movement

    The Toronto Star has two articles about pedestrians today. Slow streets, safer driving? looks at Eric Dumbaugh’s study: “Safe Streets, Livable...

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  • Scared of heights

    Two articles in today’s Globe and Mail have contrasting arguments about tall buildings in Toronto and their relationship to public space. John...

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  • Garbage on our streets

    Christopher Hume trashes Eucan’s Monster Garbage cans in today’s Toronto Star: The path to civic greatness is littered with wannabe cities...

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