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Future of Gardiner report to be made public
Cross-posted to Spacing Votes A report commissioned by the City of Toronto on what to do with the Gardiner Expressway is about to be made public at the...
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It’s Car Free Day… do you know where your councillor is?
Cross-posted from Spacing Votes — by Claire Salloum September 22 (today!) is International Car Free Day. This year in Toronto, the city is having...
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Will the Real Rick Ducharme Please Stand Up?
Speaking with the refreshing candour of a man not interested in sucking up to the boss, former TTC General Manager Rick Ducharme weighed in on the issue...
By James Bow -
New Toronto street signs
Tonight, the City of Toronto has its first public meeting about the proposed new street signs. In the Winter 2006 issue of Spacing, I wrote about the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Wanted: a transit visionary for GTA
cross-posted from Spacing Votes by Zach Slootsky Why can’t Toronto find someone with the guts to stand up for transit? This is the question that...
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Hume has Stockholm Syndrome, too
Even along the major roadways of Stockholm you find the different types of traffic are separate: bus lanes, car/truck lanes, and a fenced off cycling...
By Matthew Blackett -
Subway Extension to East Mall Proposed
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. This past Wednesday, Etobicoke community council voted to ask city staff to investigate the possibility of extending the...
By James Bow -
Making the Streets Safe for Walkers (slowly)
Two interesting pedestrian initiatives are coming to the Works Committee of City Council on Monday, Sept. 11. The first is a proposal to extend the...
By Dylan Reid -
Monarchs everywhere!
Monarchs, monarchs, everywhere! From today’s Star: They’re suddenly everywhere — majestic black and orange butterflies fluttering in...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tuesday’s headlines
• Follow the leader game just unfair to challengers: Royson James has a good piece in the Star today about the upcoming city election...
By Matthew Blackett -
Ootes doesn’t like bikes
Okay, this isn’t exactly a breaking news headline, I admit, (in fact, it could be called an understatement) but check out the latest anti-cycling...
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Friday’s headlines
• Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...
By Matthew Blackett