Transit
LORINC: Understanding how the TTC won North America’s top transit prize
By John Lorinc
When the TTC announced on Monday that it had won the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) award for outstanding... Read More
Book Review: Atlas of Cities
By Erick Villagomez
Editor: Paul Knox (Princeton University Press, 2014) With cities at the centre of all major global phenomena—from climate change to... Read More
REID: Transforming Buenos Aires
By Dylan Reid
A radical transformation of the centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, combining a new Bus Rapid Transit project and a... Read More
REID: Pity the poor operator: success and failure in subway systems
By Dylan Reid
I attended the International Transport Forum May 31-June 2 on behalf of Spacing, and over the next few days will report some of the... Read More
LORINC: No relief in sight when it comes to subways and politics
By John Lorinc
In the bonfire of the vanities that is transit politics in Greater Toronto, it is often difficult to identify who is the biggest bozo... Read More
A need for high speed rail reality
By Sean Marshall
GO Transit commuter train at Brampton Station, on the Toronto-Kitchener rail corridor Last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the... Read More
EVENT: People on bikes challenge transit and cars to see who has the fastest, most enjoyable commute—May 24th, 2017
By Spacing
Via HUB Cycling: 10 Teams including New West Mayor/Councillors, Vancity & TransLink Executives WHEN: Wednesday, May 24th... Read More
A new low for the Scarborough Subway champion
By Sean Marshall
For 2016’s annual Torontoist Heroes and Villains feature, I nominated Toronto Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker (Ward 38... Read More
WWW: Cities fighting for the death of car culture
By Sarah Yellin
Make cycling cool again How China is attempting to reverse its car-centric, status oriented, development agenda and re-popularize the... Read More
Book Review: Reinventing the Automobile
By Jeremy Senko
Author: William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns (The MIT Press, 2010) One technology that is due for... Read More
