Traffic
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Highway lessons from Shanghai?
View from pedestrian bridge under Shanghai elevated highway, but above Lake Shore Blvd.-style road The recent decision by city council to begin the...
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Attractive traffic calming
Last night I came across a rather attractive traffic calmer. It uses bricks instead of the now-traditional speed bump. It creates the same effect that is...
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Ride Suburban Critical Mass this Sunday
While many cyclists in Toronto are aware of the monthly Critical Mass, the newly created Suburban Critical Mass may be a way to see other parts of the...
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POLL: Your thoughts on tearing down the Gardiner
Urban Affairs critic Christopher Hume, in today’s Toronto Star, expressed his disappointment that local decision-makers lack the gumption to do the...
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Best American cities to cope with an oil crisis
The American mainstream media can’t get enough news stories out of the rising cost of oil. The topic has three great storylines to highlight: the...
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North York Mass bike ride this Sunday June 8 at 3pm
Join us for a fun-filled ride as we ride en masse through North York: it’s time to make every Toronto street a cycling street. START: 2300 Yonge...
By Tammy Thorne -
Road Trip: Boston’s Big Dig
A post on the big dig for Spacing could not have come at a more opportune time with the recent announcement of a concrete plan to tear down part of the...
By Sean Marshall -
The future of the Gardiner Expressway
This post has been compiled by Matthew Blackett and Robin Chubb At a news conference today at Waterfront Toronto headquarters, it was officially announced...
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BREAKING NEWS: Front Street Extension officially cancelled
The Front Street Extension and the Gardiner Expressway are having their legs cut out from beneath them. Spacing has learned that the City of Toronto and...
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Filling the Finch Station Lot
Astroboyboy123 posted this interesting time lapse video last week on YouTube of commuters arriving at one of the Finch Subway station’s parking lots...
By Sean Marshall -
Metrolinx consultation extended
Metrolinx (the former Greater Toronto Transportation Authority) is currently undertaking an ambitious project to create a comprehensive transportation...
By Dylan Reid -
Limited Parking Here
The seventh interview of The Impervious P-lot was with Allison Riddle, federal employee. We spoke with her because she regularly uses the sublevel parking...
By Amber Yared