New changes for October 2024 included improved service on Vancouver Island, new routes in Alberta, BC, and Quebec, and even more competition between Edmonton and Calgary.
New changes for October 2024 included improved service on Vancouver Island, new routes in Alberta, BC, and Quebec, and even more competition between Edmonton and Calgary.
Transit system maps are an essential tool for newcomers and casual users. Unfortunately, some agencies have not just done away with paper maps, but with useable system maps all together.
NOTE: Previous versions of the Ontario and Canada maps are retired; please see the new Canada Intercity Transport Map, launched March 30, 2025. This will now be the only interactive map that I will update. Since 2020, I have maintained an interactive map of bus and rail services in Ontario. Without a central repository of […]
Ever since John Tory was elected mayor of Toronto in 2014, voter turnout in municipal elections has been in decline. In 2010, the year Rob Ford was elected mayor, turnout was 50.4 percent. Four years later, 54.7 percent of all eligible voters went to the polls to elect a new chief magistrate. However, in 2018, […]
This coming Monday, October 24, Ontarians will be electing new city councils. In Brampton, Ottawa, and Hamilton, the mayoral races should prove to be interesting. For Ottawa in particular, with Jim Watson stepping down, voters have a clear choice (and I’ll be cheering for Catherine McKenney). Though Gil Penalosa offers a new vision of a […]
A new interactive map depicts Canada’s passenger rail networks in 1955 and in 1980
After I created a map showing where pedestrians can continue past a “no exit” sign in January, the City of Toronto is going to make changes for the better.
An interactive map depicting intercity rail services in Ontario and Quebec in 1955
Last week, Dylan Reid and I, both co-founders of Walk Toronto, decided to create an inventory of all instances in the city where “No Exit” signs do not apply to all road users. Though these signs are required under traffic codes and regulations, they do not reflect that in many cases, there is an exit […]
Rear door boarding on TTC buses is just one measure the TTC has taken to address the COVID-19 crisis Note to readers: I have since written an updated version article (with a revised map) on Spacing’s website. While most people are urged to stay home as much as possible during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there […]