On Monday, city council will vote on a series of measures from the Toronto and East York Community Council, including a motion to permanently create two pedestrian-only areas at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. The vote marks the final step in a project that has been, in Ryerson’s case, more than ten years [...]

On May 13, the City's Transportation Services division released citywide pedestrian and cyclist auto collision numbers from 2010. The data, collected from police reports, covers January to September of that year. (Get the numbers in full at the very bottom of the Transportation Services website.)

On the grounds of CAMH. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist. Suprising fact of the day: Jane’s Walk is only five years old. Held the first weekend of May, the event celebrates cities—their nooks and crannies and hidden-in-plain-sight secrets—as well as the memory of urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Over the course of the weekend various local residents [...]

photo by Tom Podolec from the Torontoist Flickr Pool Despite what some may believe, there was not a moment at the Complete Streets Forum last week when the doors were shut and locked and we all leaned forward, rubbing our hands in glee, as we devised plans to rid Toronto’s roads entirely of cars. This [...]

Like clockwork, every year, pedestrian injuries peak in winter and early summer. In fact, we’re likely just coming down from one such peak right now—the switch back from Daylight Savings Time has been blamed for triggering it. But January of this year saw a much worse rash of traffic collisions, which at one point killed ten pedestrians in eight days. The police response? A widely publicized "pedestrian blitz" that handed out tickets for jaywalking, which in many cases is not, in fact, an offense.

Source: The North Toronto Herald, August 23, 1963. With summer’s end upon us, it’s time to take stock of the season gone by and see what lessons were learned, especially when it comes to personal safety. Can you find the seven flaws in this picture for Elmer the Safety Elephant? Unfortunately, we lack the official [...]

Illustration by Matt Daley/Torontoist. Cabbies who execute U-turns with no warning. Drivers who refuse wait two seconds at a pedestrian crossing. Hotshots who think nothing of showing off their ultra-cool set of wheels by shifting into warp drive without any care about anyone else sharing the road. Car owners who ignore the existence of turn [...]

Photo by PDPhotography from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Streets are a big problem in Toronto lately, and not just because they’re so riddled with potholes that they rate among the worst in the province. Beyond simple maintenance issues, they’ve become the battleground in an increasingly divisive struggle to define how their space is allocated and [...]

Image of pilot redevelopments in New York City courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation and supplied by Gehl Architects. The next time somebody tells us that Toronto is in the midst of a war on cars we are going to buy them a plane ticket to Copenhagen. Or possibly Bogotá. New York [...]

Photo by Metrix X from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. City Council is wrapping up its monthly meeting (extended to a third day to accommodate a full agenda and some election-laced rhetoric), one which has been particularly action packed. In addition to banning new bars and restaurants on Ossington for a one year “cooling off” period, [...]