Walking
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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...
By Monika Warzecha -
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 -
Discussions on the new Metronauts website
Metronauts, the community transportation discussion group, has developed a new website aimed at furthering the discussion of transit in the Greater...
By Sean Marshall -
Getting to Ireland Park
Ireland Park is a lovely, moving park recently created at the foot of Bathurst Street, at the south base of the Malting Silo buildings near the ferry to...
By Dylan Reid -
Public Toilets
I was very grateful to find this automated toilet when I was wandering around Paris in June. As they say, when you got to go … Public toilets are...
By Dylan Reid -
Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: Lambton Mills, and African-Canadian Women in Early Toronto
This weekend’s Heritage Toronto walking tours are a great way to get out and explore the city (free + no reservations required): Lambton Mills...
By Matthew Hague -
Calgary’s scrambling too!
Cross-posted from Spacing Montreal CALGARY — I’m in Calgary at the moment, en route to Hong Kong, where I will be doing a master’s...
By Christopher DeWolf