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  • Take the Tooker

    With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...

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  • City Council this week

    There are some interesting things going down at September’s meeting of City Council. Here’s a primer: 1. Video screens on the Gardiner: As the...

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  • Keeping Segways off sidewalks

    Following a resolution by the Toronto Pedestrian Committee in April against allowing Segway scooters on sidewalks, the local distributor started a...

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  • Who’s Driving the City?

    While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...

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  • Today is CarFree Day

    Without the financial support of City Hall, Torontonians are holding their own Car Free Day. Thursday, September 22nd is World CarFree Day and...

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  • Union on two wheels?

    Today’s Globe and Mail has an interesting article on the drive to unionize Toronto’s bike couriers. As it stands, most couriers earn about...

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  • The High Cost of Free Parking

    Terrence Belford writes a rather one-sided article about Toronto’s impending parking crisis in the Globe. What is bad news to the Globe: That is the...

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  • Metro Art

    John MacFarlane writes about the art of the Montreal Metro in the Gazette: At $2.50 for a cash ticket, Montreal’s metro system is probably the...

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  • Road construction halted

    Last month, housing developers unearthed a native burial ground while widening a road north of Canada’s Wonderland. What is worse, York Region...

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  • Sewell on street signs

    John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...

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  • York Region’s VIVA

    The Toronto Star had some great coverage of York Region’s new VIVA transit system in the Saturday paper. Reading it online is fine, but the two page...

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  • Two new visions for the TTC

    Vision #1: TTC commissioners will be debating on Wednesday whether Fleet Street should be home to the city’s next streetcar right-of-way (it would...

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