Transit
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For Metrolinx, Queen and Spadina is an idling-bylaw-free zone
A project map circulated by Metrolinx shows that the Ontario Line subway’s Queen and Spadina station will be aligned with Queen Street and centred...
By Peter MacCallum -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 082, Toronto’s political gridlock
This month, we respond to Doug Ford’s stated plan of banning new bike lanes in Ontario municipalities and building an underground highway from...
By Spacing Radio -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 081, Talking Transit ’24
It’s been a while since we had a good, old-fashioned transit talk with friends of the show Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor...
By Spacing Radio -
Re-visiting the subway art of ‘Atmospheric Lens’
Inside the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station’s airy concourse, architecturally integrated public artwork, Atmospheric Lens, transforms the mundane...
By Sinead Doherty-Grant -
OP-ED: What the Province’s takeover of the Gardiner and DVP really means
Much-needed repair work to the western portion of the Gardiner Expressway began this spring, sparking a lot of consternation about the disruptions to...
By David Simor -
LORINC: The case for adaptive re-use of Ontario Science Centre
Given all the powerful arguments articulated by commentators like Elsa Lam, in Canadian Architect, or Alex Bozikovic, in The Globe and Mail, there’s...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Toronto’s transit agenda has gone missing
A day or so before the deadline for a threatened TTC strike, New York State governor Kathy Hochul torpedoed a much anticipated and controversial...
By John Lorinc -
Clearcutting in the Don Valley
If you walk, bicycle or drive along Millwood Road along the edge of the Don Valley, a fringe of greenery hides the moonscape below. There are huge...
By Ian Darragh -
Take the Yonge subway to the future! (expect some delays)
EDITOR: It’s 1954. Fictitious Bert Xanadu is the Mayor of Toronto and owner of the Imperial Six cinemas on Yonge Street. Mayor Xanadu has been governing...
By Mayor Bert Xanadu -
Opposing the Bloor-Danforth Subway
Toronto’s subway system turns 70 this month. Following the completion of the original Yonge line, there was plenty of debate over what rapid transit...
By Jamie Bradburn -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 076, Time’s running out for accessible Ontario
In 2005, Ontario passed the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), which made accessibility for all public establishments a legal...
By Spacing Radio -
Rejecting the condescension of Metrolinx advertising
I was sitting in the Cineplex at Yonge and Eglinton, watching the pre-show for the new Nic Cage film Dream Scenario. We were still in the ever-expanding...
By Craig Meerkamper