{"id":32956,"date":"2012-08-22T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=32956"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:31","slug":"headspace-video-kristyn-wong-tam-discusses-yonge-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/08\/22\/headspace-video-kristyn-wong-tam-discusses-yonge-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Headspace VIDEO: Kristyn Wong-Tam discusses Yonge Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/47958815\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/27\/complete-streets-coming-to-a-canadian-city-near-you\/feature-headspace-600-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32266\" title=\"feature-headspace-600\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/feature-headspace-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristyn Wong-Tam<\/strong> is city councillor for ward 27 in Toronto. A vocal champion of walking, the public realm and shared streets, Councillor Wong-Tam, in partnership with the Downtown Yonge BIA, is hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateyonge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrate Yonge Festival<\/a>. For one month from mid-August to mid-September, the sidewalks on Yonge Street have been extended out towards the street in order to give pedestrians more leisure space. Councillor Wong-Tam also recently hired planners Ken Greenberg and Marianne McKenna to examine and <a href=\"http:\/\/ward27news.ca\/councillor-wong-tam-launches-yonge-street-planning-framework\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on potential, permanent modifications to Yonge Street. <em>Spacing<\/em> sat down with the Councillor to discuss both the Celebrate Yonge Festival and her long term vision for Toronto\u2019s main street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristyn Wong-Tam is city councillor for ward 27 in Toronto. A vocal champion of walking, the public realm and shared streets, Councillor Wong-Tam, in partnership with the Downtown Yonge BIA, is hosting the Celebrate Yonge Festival. For one month from mid-August to mid-September, the sidewalks on Yonge Street have been extended out towards the street<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/08\/22\/headspace-video-kristyn-wong-tam-discusses-yonge-street\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Headspace VIDEO: Kristyn Wong-Tam discusses Yonge Street&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4094,"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":[21759,13,15,32,20,6],"tags":[655,163,408,20826,175,1653,15291,3605,12,62,19,30],"class_list":["post-32956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-green-space","category-media","category-streetscape","category-urban-design","category-walking","tag-city-councillor","tag-complete-streets","tag-councillor","tag-downtown-yonge-bia","tag-head-space","tag-ken-greenberg","tag-kristyn-wong-tam","tag-marianne-mckenna","tag-planning","tag-sustainability","tag-toronto","tag-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Headspace VIDEO: Kristyn Wong-Tam discusses Yonge Street - 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\/2012\/08\/22\/headspace-video-kristyn-wong-tam-discusses-yonge-street\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Headspace VIDEO: Kristyn Wong-Tam discusses Yonge Street - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kristyn Wong-Tam is city councillor for ward 27 in Toronto. 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