{"id":22923,"date":"2011-10-01T03:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T07:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=22923"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:13:58","slug":"spacing-saturday-infrastructure-cycling-and-intensification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/10\/01\/spacing-saturday-infrastructure-cycling-and-intensification\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Infrastructure, Cycling and Intensification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts   from across Spacing\u2019s blog         network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal,   Ottawa, and the Atlantic         region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4110\/5134434578_1d2231a22e_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/09\/spacing-saturday-reallocating-laneways-budapest-ubranism-and-paddle-the-don\/sidebar-head-vancouver\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Porter breaks down incredibly detailed cycling data collected by the City of Vancouver to examine the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/09\/26\/vancouver%E2%80%99s-separated-bike-lanes-%E2%80%93-more-popular-than-ever\/\">cycling traffic patterns<\/a> of the downtown core and analyze the effects of new infrastructure on cycling numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Villagomez profiles a new exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver looking into the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/09\/23\/release-museum-of-vancouver-neon-vancouver-ugly-vancouver\/\">neon signs<\/a> in the city and the movement that arose in the 70&#8217;s to rid the city of them.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Canadian cities pushing headlong towards intensification,   Spacing Ottawa presents counter points questioning if this really is the   path to better cities. Planner Alain Miguelez presented five reasons   that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/09\/19\/miguelez-five-reasons-intensification-will-work\/\">intensification will succeed<\/a>. Community activist Jay Baltz countered with reasons that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/09\/20\/baltz-five-reasons-intensification-could-fail\/\">intensification could fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clive Doucet<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/09\/29\/village-restoration-on-rails-one-euro-to-the-seaside\/\"> reports from France<\/a> on a different paradigm towards local development that is producing   growth in small villages throughout the countryside and incredible new   investments in public transit infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morgan  Lanigan looks at the successful implementation of bike lanes  on Main  Street in Saint John, NB and wonders why they were so long  coming. It&#8217;s  concluded that the answer may lie in the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/09\/20\/main-street-and-the-department-of-cars\/\">mandate<\/a> of the &#8216;Department of Transportation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>As authorities in Halifax plan renovations to the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/09\/30\/halifax%E2%80%99s-macdonald-bridge-%E2%80%93-a-cycling-headache\/\">Macdonald Bridge<\/a> with a focus on sustainability, the question remains as to whether or   not they will address dangerous accesses to the bridge&#8217;s bike lane that   currently impede cycling growth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facts are often surprising in considerations over bike lanes, Alanah <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>Heffez\u00a0 looks into some fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/09\/22\/bike-counters-find-cycling-trips-have-doubled-on-laurier-ave\/\">results of bike counters<\/a> on new bike paths in Montreal and Ottawa. The counters reveal that on some streets bikes trips have reached the same volume as car traffic was before bike lanes were installed.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Thibert looks at criticism of regional planning and addresses the question of whether regionalism is an <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/09\/19\/the-regionalist-is-regionalism-an-ideology\/\">ideological stance<\/a> or something completely different.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hilary Best profiles an exciting and innovative community led project to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/09\/20\/jump-starting-community-through-cricket-valley-park-middle-schools-journey\/\">cricket field<\/a> in Toronto&#8217;s high density Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood. The project has already built bridges in the community while the design of the field will promote sustainability and improve the Don River watershed.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Sztabinski ponders the relation between <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/09\/26\/bike-city-what-could-have-been\/\">cycling infrastructure and local governance<\/a> structure and wonders what amalgamation has meant for Toronto&#8217;s ability to produce an enhanced cycling network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Photograph by: Paul Krueger<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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