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  • Oh Canada

    Dominion Day Weekend was spent in dear Windsor, a most American of a hometown that tends to hide in cars and behind air-conditioned walls to escape the...

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  • Walking Philosophy

    Pedestrians will take the shortest available route where they need to go. And there’s really no reason why they shouldn’t be able...

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  • Billboards in the city

    Today’s Globe and Mail has an article about video billboards and the effect they have on drivers. From Dr. Gridlock’s column today...

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  • EUCAN’T! Megabins are dead!

    Yesterday, it became official: the mega-bins are dead. The city planned to leave the existing bins and allow advertising for the next few years until the...

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  • Public space in the news today

    There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues: City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to...

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  • Toronto, measured in feet

    Nicholas Hune-Brown and J. Graham Lee write in the Toronto Star about measuring the space of the city and its sprawl by walking across it. Should be a...

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  • PS Kensington on Sunday

    Tomorrow is the second Pedestrian Sunday Kensington of the year.  It starts at 1pm and goes to 7pm (and Augusta is closed to 10pm). Spacing will be there...

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  • Kudos: Pedestrian Countdown Conversion

      We give the City a lot of grief, often for good reason, so I think it is important to acknowledge when the City does something well. Recently, the city...

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  • Under Bathurst Bridge

    In the most recent issue of Spacing, David Fontaine wrote about the view of Fort York from under the Bathurst Street Bridge, the closest approximation of...

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  • Montreal Considers a Pedestrian Charter

    The City of Montreal is considering adopting a Pedestrian Charter (Toronto was the first North American city to adopt one, in 2002). Unlike...

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  • The Impacts of Traffic on Health

    The City of Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health released a damning report in March on “The Impacts of Traffic on Health”. The report is...

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  • People Walking 2006

    Walking down Bloor on Saturday night after seeing A Prairie Home Companion at the Cumberland (go see this wonderful movie, Meryl Streep can totally sing)...

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