{"id":14130,"date":"2010-09-16T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:36:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:36:45","slug":"spacing-votes-weekly-a-video-game-thomsons-bike-city-ttc-air-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/16\/spacing-votes-weekly-a-video-game-thomsons-bike-city-ttc-air-space\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: A video game, Thomson&#8217;s Bike City, TTC air space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14136\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/16\/spacing-votes-weekly-a-video-game-thomsons-bike-city-ttc-air-space\/screen-shot-2010-09-13-at-8-54-54-pm-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14136\" title=\"TTC air space\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-13-at-8.54.54-PM1-e1284659146243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-13-at-8.54.54-PM1-e1284659146243.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-13-at-8.54.54-PM1-e1284659146243-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/votes\/images\/feature-spacingvotes-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: <\/strong><em>Spacing Votes \u2014 our dedicated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">2010 election blog<\/a> \u2014 will feature regular posts form our contributors that examine campaign promises and platforms that focus on Toronto\u2019s urban landscape. Here\u2019s our round-up of posts from the last seven days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 <\/em>One option for added revenue for the TTC is selling air rights. It&#8217;s an option that some are eager about (Rocco Rossi, Sarah Thomson and Rob Ford) and some not so much. Looking to Hong Kong&#8217;s transit system as an example, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/2010\/09\/14\/ttc-selling-the-air-above\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandy Wu looks into<\/a> the feasibility of such a plan and what it would mean to the TTC, and the city at large. And the T-Dot wouldn&#8217;t be the first Canadian city to table the idea \u2014\u00a0both Vancouver and Ottawa are curious, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sarah Thomson launched a thorough bike plan last week. A plan \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahthomson.ca\/blog\/sarah-thomsons-bike-city\">Bike City<\/a> \u2014\u00a0that is be lauded by many, and being railed against mainly by drivers. (What else is new?) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/2010\/09\/15\/interview-thomsons-bike-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spacing <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/2010\/09\/15\/interview-thomsons-bike-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">sat down with Thomson<\/a> to discuss her proposed Bike City and flesh out what hard action will be taken. With main concentration downtown where the roads are smaller (and unsafer), the mayoral frontrunner proposes physically separated bike paths on major downtown corridors. It&#8217;s a progressive plan that Thomson says fits a progressive city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 And lastly, a little fun has been injected into the race. (Finally, I know. Where are the <em>real <\/em>satirists when you need them?) <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/2010\/09\/16\/mayors-race-the-video-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Pac-Man-esque video game<\/a> has been created to &#8220;poll&#8221; the mayoral frontrunners. And the five characters look good, quasi-super hero good. The hope is to engage the video game generation (that&#8217;s you, reader) in the race and to hopefully get them involved. Involved more than just playing a computer game and to actually see some make their way to the ballot box. Here&#8217;s to hoping anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Cameron MacMaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Spacing Votes \u2014 our dedicated\u00a02010 election blog \u2014 will feature regular posts form our contributors that examine campaign promises and platforms that focus on Toronto\u2019s urban landscape. Here\u2019s our round-up of posts from the last seven days. \u2022 One option for added revenue for the TTC is selling air rights. It&#8217;s an option<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/09\/16\/spacing-votes-weekly-a-video-game-thomsons-bike-city-ttc-air-space\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: A video game, Thomson&#8217;s Bike City, TTC air space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4085,"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":[2,8],"tags":[94,15994,15995,31,346,227,10726,15588,15586,959,19,889,54],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-transit","tag-2010-election","tag-air-space-editor","tag-cameron-macmaster","tag-election","tag-ottawa","tag-rob-ford","tag-rocco-rossi","tag-sandy-wu","tag-spacing-votes-weekly","tag-thomson","tag-toronto","tag-ttc","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: A video game, Thomson&#039;s Bike City, TTC air space - 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\/09\/16\/spacing-votes-weekly-a-video-game-thomsons-bike-city-ttc-air-space\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPACING VOTES WEEKLY: A video game, Thomson&#039;s Bike City, TTC air space - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Spacing Votes \u2014 our dedicated\u00a02010 election blog \u2014 will feature regular posts form our contributors that examine campaign promises and platforms that focus on Toronto\u2019s urban landscape. 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