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Posts Filed Under: infrastructure

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Spotted: Ghost Bike Posts

Stenciled bike posts where real ones were once installed—removed by Astral Media to make way for information pillars.

By Hamutal Dotan

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Building Storeys: Rail Bridges

Moving (and preserving) Torontonians over and under busy train tracks.

By Jamie Bradburn

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Historicist: The Grand Tour

Frederick Gardiner and Tracy leMay show off the possibilities and problems of their newly created realm: Metro Toronto.

By Kevin Plummer

Etobicoke Clerk's Dept. photo of officials touring a residential development, likely Don Mills, 1950s, from the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 213, Series 1464, File 7, Item 3.
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Duly Quoted: Frances Nunziata and Mike Layton

An unlikely alliance of councillors who want Metrolinx to rethink plans for the Union-Pearson Air Rail Link.

By Hamutal Dotan

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History, Culture, and Bike Lanes at Jarvis Town Hall

Cyclists were all fired up and all in agreement as bike lanes dominated a public discussion last night.

By Graeme Bayliss • Photos by Corbin Smith

Town hall meeting held last night at Jarvis Collegiate Institute.
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A Walking Tour of Toronto

A new study by the Board of Health shows that Torontonians value walkable neighbourhoods—but lots of us can't afford to live in them.

By Hamutal Dotan • Photo by Miles Storey

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Activist Seeks Drivers in Favour of Jarvis Street Bike Lanes

If you drive, and like Jarvis Street the way it is, Dave Meslin wants to hear from you.

By Steve Kupferman

Image courtesy of Dave Meslin.
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2011 Villain: Anti-Cycling Sentiment

Nominated for: perpetuating an attitude that, quite literally, kills.

By Todd Aalgaard • Illustration by Jeremy Kai

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2011 Villain: The Underground Eglinton LRT

Nominated for: costing more and delivering less.

By David Fleischer • Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova

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2011 Hero: New Subway Trains

Nominated for: being the silver lining in our often grey commutes.

By Laura Godfrey • Illustration by Matthew Daley

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The Cost Of Ignoring Our Aging Highrises

The future of the past: how we can salvage the apartment towers we once built in abundance but now often ignore.

By Jaime Woo

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Duly Quoted: Jack Diamond

"[T]he extra cost of operating a widespread, low-density city such as Toronto, compared with a more compact city such as Zurich or Vienna (to say nothing of Manhattan or Hong Kong), [is] an average of $1-billion annually."

By Hamutal Dotan

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Mark Osbaldeston Exorcizes Toronto’s Architectural Ghosts

Osbaldeston, author of Unbuilt Toronto 2, has made a side-business out of digging up plans that went awry.

By Steve Kupferman

Unbuilt Toronto 2's cover. Image courtesy of Dundurn Press.
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The Case for a National Transit Strategy

Yesterday in Ottawa, sympathy from all parties for TTC chief Gary Webster and his call for a national transit strategy—but will Harper's cabinet listen?

By Mark Bourrie

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One Millionth Tower Uses New Technology to Explore Aging Buildings

New web-native documentary by Katerina Cizek and the NFB goes wandering through the apartment buildings many of us call home.

By Matthew Braga (Guest Contributor)

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A Streetcar We Desire

Toronto finally gets a peek at the future of our streetcars—and they can't come soon enough.

By Laurence Lui • Photos by Andrew Louis

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Public Works Committee to Cyclists: Let Them Eat Posts

Committee votes to prohibit locking bikes to anything but official bike posts...of which there are far too few.

By Christopher Bird

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Duly Quoted: Gord Perks

"This could be the issue that forces Transit City in front of this council for the first time."

By Hamutal Dotan

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Spotted: Lego My Bike Lane!

And people say extending bike lanes is hard.

By Hamutal Dotan

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Platform Primer: Transit and Infrastructure

The outcome of the provincial election will have a major impact on the future state of Ontario's cities and how we get around in them. Here's what the parties say they'll do.

By Patrick Metzger • Graphic by Michael Chrisman

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