{"id":11281,"date":"2010-05-22T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=11281"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:12:47","slug":"spacing-saturday-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/22\/spacing-saturday-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog     network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3416\/4627215924_7b3654aef8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing saturday\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing atlantic\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Responding to speculation that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/05\/18\/roundabouts-and-rotaries\/\">roundabouts may soon be coming to the streets of Halifax<\/a>, Steve Bedard gives a ringing endorsement of the plan by reflecting on observations of how well the round arrangement works in Europe. Bedard notes in particular how well the French use roundabouts to manage traffic efficiently and promote shared roadways.<\/p>\n<p>As St John kicks off the celebrations of its 225th birthday, Abad Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/05\/21\/now-closed-saint-john-harbour-passage\/\">reflects  on the city&#8217;s priorities<\/a> as demonstrated by the two year closure of  one its most important pedestrian routes to facilitate bridge  construction. Would the city have closed a road as well?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing montreal\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Plateau neighbourhood, recently elected Project Montreal has put forward <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/21\/terrace-troubles-in-the-plateau\/\">a new plan to deal with restaurant terraces<\/a> on area sidewalks. The plan calls for terraces to be moved off of sidewalks and onto the street to improve pedestrian flow. Businesses in the area have taken a number of issues with the plan and threatening to close their terraces all sumer in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Allanah Heffez reports on the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/19\/bike-deaths-inspire-vigil-and-tickets\/\">sombre mood surrounding cyclists in Quebec<\/a> following the recent tragic deaths of four cyclists on a rural highway. While silent vigil rides dubbed &#8220;tour de silence&#8221; are taking part across the province police in Montreal have fallen back on the classic blame the victim approach stepping enforcement on cyclists but not motorists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing ottawa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even in Ottawa its hard to wring money out of &#8216;Ottawa.&#8217; Spacing continues to follow the ongoing story the proposed new LRT, this week focusing on the question of federal funding. While many expected a funding announcement to come quickly, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/05\/19\/so-about-that-federal-lrt-funding\/\">the silence from Transport Minister Baird<\/a> is beginning to make some worried, and could put the whole project in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Capstick opened the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/05\/18\/cityvote-takes-a-visual-turn\/\">next chapter of the CityVote 2010 <\/a>feature this week. The renewed focus will be on using visual technology to open up a dialogue between the voters, community groups and candidates.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The question of whether or not Toronto is really a world class city has  finally been definitively answered. Thursday morning city officials  gathered on the Waterfront to unveil <a href=\"..\/2010\/05\/20\/toronto-introduces-first-of-public-pay-toilets-at-the-waterfront\/\">Toronto&#8217;s  first public pay toilet<\/a>, complete with friendly female voice, and  soft waterfall music. Nicole McIsaac satisfied her curiosity about the  new street furniture with a visit and shares her observations with  readers.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on from the disappointing failure of the University Ave bike lanes proposal, cycling advocates were out in front of Queen&#8217;s Park this week to push for <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/18\/cyclists-rally-at-queens-park-for-three-foot-passing-legislation\/\">intelligent new safety laws<\/a> requiring drivers to leave at least three feet of space when passing cyclists. The new law could help address the main barrier keeping more people from cycling: safety.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Marcus Bowman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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Bedard notes<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/22\/spacing-saturday-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759],"tags":[5540,13290,1128,109,14022,14004,38,15043,346,819,316,133,13943,19,3434,15071],"class_list":["post-11281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-baird","tag-blog-network","tag-europe","tag-halifax","tag-ian-capstick","tag-marcus-bowman","tag-montreal","tag-nicole-mcisaac","tag-ottawa","tag-quebec","tag-queen","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-steve-bedard","tag-toronto","tag-transport-minister","tag-visual-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/22\/spacing-saturday-22\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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