The Star
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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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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...
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A Toronto “What If?”
Today’s Toronto Star has a great section called “What If?” It is very much like our “History of our Future” issue from last...
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Connect the streetcars
The TTC is considering turning two or three streetcars into one long “coupled” vehicle along the King Street streetcar route. The...
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Public space in the news today
Here are a few links to articles in today’s papers: The TTC is going shopping for new streetcars. The photo above, from Minneapolis, is the new...
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New media vs. old media
On most days, the Spacing Wire tracks what is going on in the public realm of this city, linking to articles and columns in the major daily papers, the...
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Province Complicates York University Extension With Money
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Despite the highlights of Ontario’s recently announced budget, and despite earlier indications that the York...
By James Bow -
Toronto Ruins
(Photo courtesy of Bob Krawczyk) The Toronto Star reported two days ago that the James Chalmers Building located at 6 Howard Street has collapsed. This...
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Sidewalk carving removed
A reliable source (a Broken Pencil magazine editor) has told Spacing that the sidewalk carvings found at King and Simcoe, made by a man who asked for...
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The TTC and Google
As we posted back on December 8th, 2005, the TTC is hoping to get our system into the Google Transit feature. From the Star: Google has asked the TTC for...
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Good articles from the Star & NOW
Some recent articles in the Star are worth posting about: 1. The City wants to crack down on vehicles idling. 2. Royson James writes about the need for...
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Cops on horses
Excuse me, but this post is a bit of a rant, so feel free to skip over. On Thursday last week, a police officer on a horse was struck by a car. The horse...
By Matthew Blackett