Walking
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EVENT GUIDE: Ways to walk this week
As Toronto’s October “Festival of Walking” draws to a close, here are a couple of interesting walking-themed events for the week. The...
By Dylan Reid -
EVENT GUIDE: Lawrence Heights walking-cycling consultation
As part of a revitalization project for the Lawrence-Allen area, including Lawrence Heights, the City of Toronto is asking local residents about...
By Dylan Reid -
Walking Adelaide West
On probably the last warm day of the year, I went for a holiday Monday walk along Adelaide Street West, where it becomes a local street after Bathurst...
By Dylan Reid -
Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan consultation
Metrolinx, the provincial agency charged with sorting out the Greater Toronto Area’s transportation woes, has come out with a draft Regional...
By Dylan Reid -
Shenzhen: China’s Instant City
The first half of my visit to China took me to the working class city of Changchun and the modern city of Dalian, both in Manchuria, in the northeast. The...
By Sean Marshall -
NUIT BLANCHE: impressions
Words on steel drums (Euphemisms for the intimate enemy, Ruark Lewis), Liberty Village For Nuit Blanche this year, I focused on Liberty Village...
By Dylan Reid -
Event Guide: Toronto Walking Festival launch
The City of Toronto has declared October to be the “Toronto Walking Festival”. The idea is to link together all of the many walking events...
By Dylan Reid -
Sidewalk cycling in the ‘burbs
Seconds after taking this photo, a cyclist flashed past me on the sidewalk. In the suburbs, this is a relative non-occurrence, something I hardly even...
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Pedestrian scramble time-lapse
Spacing teamed up with the highly-regarded photoblogger Sam Javanrouh to create a fun time-lapse of the new Yonge-Dundas pedestrian scramble (see below)...
By Matthew Blackett -
A pedestrian lobster trap
A massive new residential development is taking shape in the railway lands on the west side of Spadina, just north of Lake Shore Boulevard and the...
By Dylan Reid -
Ready, set, scramble!
The scramble intersection at Yonge and Dundas was activated this morning. Pedestrians were slightly confused early on, but by the time the TV cameras and...
By Matthew Blackett -
One giant diagonal step for pedestrians
Starting on Thursday, pedestrians will be able to cross the intersection of Yonge and Dundas diagonally, without worrying about cars. The City is ready to...
By Dylan Reid