Walking
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Toronto BIAs recognize disability issues
by Andy Reeves, Spacing Votes correspondent The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) recently released a report entitled...
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New Toronto street signs
Tonight, the City of Toronto has its first public meeting about the proposed new street signs. In the Winter 2006 issue of Spacing, I wrote about the...
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Subway Extension to East Mall Proposed
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. This past Wednesday, Etobicoke community council voted to ask city staff to investigate the possibility of extending the...
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Toronto Coalition for Active Transport
Cycling, walking, and related organizations in Toronto have come together to form the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT). TCAT’s...
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Vancouver and Victoria public spaces
Andy Reeves will be covering ad creep and streetscape issues during the 2006 election for the Spacing Votes blog. Here’s a report by Reeves from his...
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Making the Streets Safe for Walkers (slowly)
Two interesting pedestrian initiatives are coming to the Works Committee of City Council on Monday, Sept. 11. The first is a proposal to extend the...
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New Pedestrian Space, Montreal
This attractive little space is the result of the pedestrian-oriented rebuilding of Bernard Street, a minor mixed commercial/residential street in...
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Three people don’t make it “mixed reviews”
The Star has an article today about the Queen’s Quay pedestrian/bike lane experiment. They had quotes from three residents who didn’t seem...
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Saturday’s public space headlines
• Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...
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Blackout in Kensington
Today is the anniversary of the 2003 Blackout. Though it was extremely hot that night, it was also one of the best days I have ever experienced. I have...
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Pedestrian Collisions
The City of Toronto recently released the statistics for collisions involving pedestrians in 2005 (PDF file). Although the year-to-year changes are...
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The bright lights and tall towers of Bundang
I’ve spent the past two weeks in the neighbourhood of Bundang in the city of Seongnam, South Korea. (My business here is not Spacing-related —...
By Dale Duncan