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John Street could be good for pedestrians and cyclists

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:26 by herb

Ian bikes down John Street regularly. He recently captured the chaos that is John because of the road space given over to patios and muskoka chairs.

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Designing nice streets is easy when we pretend cars do not exist

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 08:05 by herb

Young urban planner Richard Valenzona just won the $5000 NXT City Prize for his project YONGE-REDUX A New Vision of Yonge Street. Valenzona's entry pleased the judges by showing how he'd expand Yonge's "pedestrian access and transforming the street’s visual appearance". This is how he imagined it:

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Toronto's failed shared space experiments exclude the vulnerable

Mon, 07/07/2014 - 13:01 by herb

Some influential Toronto planners and politicians have been dabbling in "shared space" and "cultural corridors" for the last few years. They like to talk about "destinations" rather than "through-traffic". These are innocuous terms but the results are far from harmless and might end up infecting our approach to "Complete Streets".

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