Walking
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This will be the best weekend of the year
A few weeks ago, in the little “God [or] Devil is in the Details” section in Eye Weekly, I wrote about the melting snow leaving behind a...
By Shawn Micallef -
TCAT Program Coordinator needed: deadline April 23
Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) Project Coordinator TCAT was formed in 2006 to give a unified voice to the many groups working for a...
By Tammy Thorne -
Jane’s Walk
To honour Jane Jacobs, who died a year ago, Mayor David Miller announced in November 2006 that May 4 would officially be “Jane Jacobs Day” in...
By Dylan Reid -
Sustainable Transportation II: Bremen, Germany
Last week, I posted some of the interesting material I heard about Kingston, Ontario, at Moving the Economy‘s workshop on sustainable...
By Dylan Reid -
Road to ‘total bikeability’ not clearly marked
The NOW magazine bike panel was certainly an enjoyable precursor to their current bike issue. (The issue includes panelist Tanya Quinn’s open letter...
By Tammy Thorne -
Virtual City Tours
I just found an interesting site called “Virtual City,” where you can pick a location or a route in Toronto and it will show you a photo of...
By Dylan Reid -
Street food is in the air
I’ve often heard people wonder why it is that the only food you can buy from a street vendor in Toronto is a sausage, when the city is full of...
By Dylan Reid -
Pedestrian Sundays expand
The successful Kensington Market Pedestrian Sundays are expanding to other neighbourhoods this year. Both Baldwin Street Village and Mirvish Village (on...
By Dylan Reid -
The forgotten other half of Toronto’s Bike Plan
One of the key strategies for a greener and cleaner Toronto proposed in the City’s new clean air plan, Change is in the Air, is to complete the...
By Dylan Reid -
Renderings from street furniture submissions
The City of Toronto released renderings from the bidders of the massive street furniture contract. Here are a few images extracted from the PDF, courtesy...
By Matthew Blackett -
Tap into TO! gives a great tour
Planning on coming to Toronto? don’t have the cash to spend on a bus tour? No problem. Tap into TO! is a greeter program with the City of Toronto...
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A Stroll on the Danforth
Spacing associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote the current lead city article in Eye Weekly about the dramatic topographic and social changes The Danforth...
By Spacing