Traffic
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The truth about the University Avenue bike lanes
Over the past year, I have written multiple times about how misinformation and selective framing continue shaping Toronto’s transportation debates. In...
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Church Street is being pedestrianized — that wasn’t so hard, was it?
In well under a year, which is like the blink of an eye in City of Toronto time, a plan to pedestrianize that portion of Church Street bisecting The...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 93, Everything Eglinton
To compliment the latest Eglinton-themed issue of Spacing Magazine, we begin with a celebration. Our regular transit commentators Toronto Star columnist...
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LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto’s door
In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6)...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban...
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How many more highway lanes?
After more than two decades tucked away as an idea simply not worth the cost, Highway 413 is finally kicking into gear as Premier Doug Ford’s...
By Michel Nayrouz -
OP-ED: Electric Vehicles and the Federal Sales Standard
Electric cars are in the news, though it’s hard to call them new. Torontonians were impressed when they first saw an electric car on city streets … in...
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LORINC: Is the 401 Tunnel an off-ramp or money pit?
According to Doug Ford, his pal the prime minister is giving serious consideration to elevating the premier’s 401-tunnel scheme from the muck deep...
By John Lorinc -
It’s not about speed cameras on Parkside
Unless you live in a hermetically sealed box, you likely know that the serial be-heading of the speed camera on Parkside Drive has mutated from a weird...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Warning about the danger to kids from pickup trucks
How many people would buy a new version of a home appliance knowing that it is seven times more likely to cause injury to a child than its traditional...
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Understanding the elusiveness of Smart Cities
As Canadian cities strive to navigate rapid urbanization, climate change, and digital disruption, “smart city” strategies have emerged as a popular, and...
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OP-ED: Pedaling inaccuracies
Recently, Etobicoke MP Yvan Baker joined a small group of residents to publicly denounce the Bloor Street bike lanes. In a statement shared on his...
By Lanrick Bennett