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IDEAS FOR TORONTO: Infrastructure referendums
The Toronto City Summit Alliance held a roundtable event last Wednesday to discuss revenue tools that could reliably fund Metrolinx’s The Big Move...
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Bike parking takes over car parking spaces
Toronto bike riders can celebrate a “first” today: the City has converted two car parking spots into parking for a minimum of 16 bikes. Here...
By Matthew Blackett -
STREET SCENE: Top Down View
Looking down from the 3rd floor. Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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LORINC: Where’s the (car) sharing?
While ad creep has yet to make an appearance in the 2010 election, Joe Pantalone’s pastel hued Smart car (Daimler AG) gets the nod as the most visible...
By John Lorinc -
Commuting snapshots across the Spacing map
Source: Statistics Canada By Emily Richardson — cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic Despite dramatic differences in population, density, infrastructure...
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Complete Streets: What they are and why we need them
Conversations about the architecture of Toronto’s streets tend to be terribly divisive. You’re either a cyclist or a driver. A transit user or a...
By Hilary Best -
Cyclists rally at Queens Park for three-foot passing legislation
It’s no secret that there are drivers who simply refuse to share the road, and in turn endanger the life of cyclists’ everyday. This is why Cheri DiNovo...
By Nicole McIsaac -
Get ready to be inconvenienced by world leaders
Spacing’s next issue will be hitting the newsstands in late June. It’s only coincidental that our cover section will focus on the theme of...
By Matthew Blackett -
The turtle sign should die a slow death
I am fascinated by signs on our streets. This fascination, though, often leads me to frustration in Toronto. A case in point is the use of the sign Please...
By Matthew Blackett -
JOHN LORINC: Subway Sarah’s Tunnel Vision
Mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson wants me to write about her campaign, so here goes: Let’s start with a fact check of her plan to...
By John Lorinc -
Traffic lights don’t have to be ugly: designs Toronto could learn from
Could traffic lights get any uglier than on St. Clair? In the Infrastructure Fetish feature of the new issue of Spacing, I wrote a lament to...
By Sean Marshall -
The pretty people at Spacing’s party
At each Spacing release party, we have photographer Rannie Turingan set-up a portrait station where any of the party attendees can have their image...
By Spacing