Walking
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LORINC: What Toronto should learn from Hamburg’s self-driving shuttle pilot
HAMBURG, GERMANY — At some point in 2019, the first of three curiously upright shuttle vehicles will begin tooling around a 3.6km loop of city streets in...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Sidewalk Labs, autonomous vehicles, and the persistent myth of driver error
LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum — When Sidewalk Labs unveiled its plans for Toronto’s waterfront, the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Walking in the shadow of Yonge Street attack
There’s a lot of talk these days — on Spacing and elsewhere — about “messy urbanism.” But if you want to understand what this evocatively gritty phrase...
By John Lorinc -
Athletic traffic planning: Moving thousands of fans on game day
When the Leafs or Blue Jays play a home game, Doug Tuira doesn’t watch to see if Auston Matthews will score an overtime winner or Roberto Osuna will close...
By David Hains -
The wrong answer to a tragic death of a boy walking home from school
On Tuesday, February 27, around 3:30 PM, Duncan Xu, an 11-year old boy, was struck and killed by a motorist in a residential neighbourhood in north...
By Sean Marshall -
“Distracted walking” laws make no sense
The spectre of “distracted walking” apparently haunts our streets. The scare has been raised again through a private member’s bill...
By Dylan Reid -
REID: “You cannot talk fatalities down” – international insights on walking and cycling
When I asked Anders Lie, the Swedish expert on the Vision Zero traffic safety program, about cities (like Toronto) where politicians lay claim to the...
By Dylan Reid -
REID: Transforming Buenos Aires
A radical transformation of the centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, combining a new Bus Rapid Transit project and a pedestrian-and-cyclist priority...
By Dylan Reid -
Islamophobia in Canadian public spaces: how to go from trauma to solidarity
There is a pressing need to turn public spaces where Muslims have been traumatized into spaces where solidarity is strengthened. Racialized communities...
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Stand right, walk left: the escalator algorithm
When Spacing asked Torontonians for their insights into Toronto public etiquette, one of the clearest and most repeated messages we got was, when on an...
By Dylan Reid -
Do “Slow Down” lawn signs actually work?
“Slow Down, Kids at Play” lawn signs proliferated in Toronto in the last couple of years as part of a private campaign in the wake of the...
By Dylan Reid -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 005, Shake It Up
This is the companion episode to the latest issue of Spacing Magazine, with a focus on celebrating women in city building. We talk to Pamela Robinson...
By Spacing Radio