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Toronto is the Second Most Walkable City in Canada, Says Walk Score
A Seattle-based research firm says Toronto is more pedestrian-friendly than anywhere except Vancouver. Snowy streets be damned, Toronto! Go for a walk this week in Canada’s second most walkable city,...
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Scarborough Residents Talk Transit
As part of the City's new push to gather public input on the future of Toronto's transit network, some Scarberians had their say. About two dozen Toronto residents went to the Scarborough Civic Centre...
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Promoting Toronto’s Pedestrians
A new advocacy group aims to make the city's streetscape more pedestrian-friendly. In Toronto’s transportation hierarchy, pedestrians have a low ranking. Our public conversations tend to be about...
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Summer Festival Will Open Yonge and Bloor to Pedestrians and Cyclists
This August, Open Streets TO will turn two iconic routes into hubs of activity and exploration. On August 17 and 31, Yonge and Bloor will be not merely be routes, but destinations. As part of a massive...
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Public Works: Saying No to So-So Ideas
California is toying with tiny lights to try to make crosswalks safer. The idea may be better off dropped. Public Works looks at public space, urban design, and city-building innovations from around...
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Public Works: The Sign Says, ‘Walk There’
A DIY initiative encouraging people to walk their cities is taking off across the U.S. Public Works looks at public space, urban design, and city-building innovations from around the world, and...
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Lofty Pedestrian Goal Requires Unseen Vision
Given Toronto's instincts, does the city have what it takes to pull off a Vision Zero pedestrian strategy? At a press conference in North York this morning, Public Works Chair Jaye Robinson (Ward 26,...
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This Intersection Takes More Than Eight Minutes to Legally Cross and Shows...
The waterfront is a destination, but it's hard to access it with intersections like Spadina and Fort York. Built in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Gardiner Expressway was built to get motorists in...
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The Countdown Clock Law is Ridiculous, and so is the Police Pedestrian Blitz
The pedestrian countdown clock law shows what's wrong with Toronto's approach to road issues. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A woman crosses University Avenue, on Queen Street. A police officer,...
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Historicist: Pedestrian-blaming, 1930s style
Toronto struggles to reduce the number of traffic fatalities during the holiday season. The Christmas of 1936 was a black one for Toronto. On December 26, newspapers reported on the holiday slaughter:...
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Cars Take Up Too Much Space on King Street
Three possible options to improve King Street presented at recent meeting. Hundreds packed into the third floor of Metro Hall February 13 to learn about the City of Toronto’s plans for redesigning King...
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Our addiction to driving is costing lives, and more
The solution is not to scold drivers but to make structural solutions. I must confess: I was tempted to write a column along the lines of “Yes, it’s a war on the car, and it’s a just war!” But we...
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