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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...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
Finch Avenue does the collapse
The wicked storm that passed through Toronto on the weekend did some serious damage. Spacing is lucky enough to have been forwarded photos from a resident...
By Matthew Blackett -
How would you make Toronto a better city?
The final results of the “Think Outside the Box†initiative—a month-long chance to vote for the top priority among a list of issues are in...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Watching the highways
We at Spacing hate to see traffic jams. Only bad things comes from auto congestion: pollution, idling, missed dinners, flared tempers, etc. For those of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Meeting on the fate of the Gardiner & Street Design
Thursday August 11, 2005 starting at 6:30 Location: 115 the Esplanade (near Church St.) East meeting room, ring bell 6:30pm: street design 7:30pm: the...
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Accidental Cyclists
A group of concerned cyclists has started a project called Ghostcycle in Seattle. The group gathered data about local bicycle collisions and then chained...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Pedestrian death and transit safety
The TTC and Toronto Police are launching a safety campaign that targets aggressive drivers, impatient cyclists, and pedestrians running into traffic to...
By Matthew Blackett