{"id":7001,"date":"2012-03-03T01:11:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:21:37","slug":"spacing-saturday-transit-politics-regional-migration-and-olympic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/03\/spacing-saturday-transit-politics-regional-migration-and-olympic-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Transit Politics, Regional Migration and Olympic Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2752\/4211865830_cd1ea725e4_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Vancouver Olympic Village<\/em><\/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><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" title=\"st\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the political drama around Toronto&#8217;s transit planning continued this week Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got into the details of an Angus Reid poll exploring what options Torontonians really\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/29\/digging-into-the-latest-transit-poll\/\">support<\/a>. In another post, Dylan Reid explored the positives of Rob Ford&#8217;s push to start the debate on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/28\/has-mayor-ford-opened-the-door-to-sustained-transit-funding\/\">new funding<\/a>\u00a0sources for transit.<\/p>\n<p>Noah van der Laan continues the\u00a0<em>LRT Today\u00a0<\/em>series, looking at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/01\/lrt-today-los-angeless-suburban-light-rail-system\/\">Gold Line in Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0as a system which passes through a variety of environments and may bear similarities to what could be built in Toronto.<\/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>Alexandre Laquerre takes a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/01\/coin-bank-somerset-vers-1935-c-2012\/\">the difference<\/a> 80 years makes at the corner of Bank and Sommerset in Ottawa.<\/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>Alanah Heffez reminds readers that the practice of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/26\/where-have-all-the-snowbanks-gone\/\">removing snow<\/a>\u00a0from Montreal&#8217;s streets is not that old, illustrating that there was a time when snow was simply piled in the streets to form elevated\u00a0carriageways.<\/p>\n<p>Is there really an ongoing Francophone exodus from Montreal? and if so then who is buying all the new condos? Joel Thibert unpacks the questions of<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/25\/the-regionalist-the-mysterious-francophone-exodus\/\">\u00a0regional migration<\/a>\u00a0around Montreal in the latest installment of\u00a0<em>The Regionalist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?attachment_id=21274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brent Toderian, former director of planning for the City of Vancouver, makes his debut post in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/01\/olympic-cities-and-advanced-city-making-part-1\/\">part one of a new ongoing serie<\/a>s looking at Vancouver&#8217;s Olympic legacy and the challenges and opportunities of Olympic city-building in host cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Ngo presents the results of a study looking into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/27\/identifying-potential-areas-for-intensifying-transit-oriented-development-in-vancouver\/\">best sites<\/a>\u00a0with potential for major Transit Oriented Development along Vancouver&#8217;s SkyTrain lines using GIS mapping techniques and Statistics Canada housing data.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by: Glotman Simpson<\/em><\/p>\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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