Transit
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Saving St. Clair? Judge rules today
Somthing to watch for today: a court decision on whether to let construction of the St. Clair Right of Way to continue. In the Star today they sum it up...
By Matthew Blackett -
SPACING: subway buttons receive award
The American graphic design magazine HOW Design named Spacing‘s Toronto subway station button collection the third best wearable item in their 2005...
By Matthew Blackett -
NYC & SF transit don’t like iPod subway maps
In late August, the Spacing Wire reported on the wonderful website iPod Subway Maps. Designer William Bright created images of 12 cities’ subway...
By Matthew Blackett -
Take the Tooker
With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Capture the Flag
CAPTURE THE FLAG! Bay Street Friday, September 30th // 8:30 PM // meet at King & Bay Capture the Flag, the massive urban game where teams hit the...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
Map Porn
Radical Cartography has an amazing collection of analytical maps. My personal favorite is a scale comparison of all North American Transit systems...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Viacom’s breaking all the rules
The Toronto Public Space Committee has researched the contract that Viacom has with the City of Toronto for ads on transit shelters and has found that...
By Dave Meslin -
12 Lessons from 12 Cities
The Globe and Mail’s Tralee Pearce offers Mayor Miller some tips from other cities ranging from free wireless networks, public events, wind powered...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Gas tax cometh
It seems like there has been a lot of transit-type news lately. So here’s another one, this time from today’s Toronto Star. “Nothing...
By Matthew Blackett