{"id":811,"date":"2006-05-30T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:20","slug":"spadina-expressway-renderings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/05\/30\/spadina-expressway-renderings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spadina Expressway renderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/Spadina-graphic-small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spacing is throwing a party to honour the work of community activists that saved Toronto from the perils of superhighways. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/\"><strong>35 Years Without the Spadina Expressway<\/strong><\/a> will take place Friday June 2nd at the Spadina Museum (285 Spadina Road) from 5:00-7:30pm, with speeches at 6pm. And it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>We have some artist renderings of what the expressway would have looked like. Click on each photo to see a larger version. Casa Loma, Bloor and Spadina, and U of T campus would have all been reshaped if these illustrations were a reality today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/Expressway-casaloma.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/Expressway-casaloma-small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/expressway-dupont.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/expressway-dupont-small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/expressway-bloor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/expressway-bloor-small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/expressway-harbord.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/spadina\/images\/expressway-harbord-small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing is throwing a party to honour the work of community activists that saved Toronto from the perils of superhighways. 35 Years Without the Spadina Expressway will take place Friday June 2nd at the Spadina Museum (285 Spadina Road) from 5:00-7:30pm, with speeches at 6pm. 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We have some artist renderings of what<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/05\/30\/spadina-expressway-renderings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spadina Expressway renderings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"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":[18,14,9,20],"tags":[315,12,995,2299,943,19],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-spacing","category-traffic","category-urban-design","tag-artist","tag-planning","tag-spadina-expressway","tag-spadina-museum","tag-t-campus","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spadina Expressway renderings - 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\/2006\/05\/30\/spadina-expressway-renderings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spadina Expressway renderings - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing is throwing a party to honour the work of community activists that saved Toronto from the perils of superhighways. 35 Years Without the Spadina Expressway will take place Friday June 2nd at the Spadina Museum (285 Spadina Road) from 5:00-7:30pm, with speeches at 6pm. 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