Tag Archives: Sidewalks

Deadly by design: Supertest Road

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

On Tuesday, January 21, a 26-year-old woman was struck and killed by the driver of a tractor-trailer at the corner of Supertest Road and Alness Street in North York. According to police, the truck driver was making a right turn … Continue reading →

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Wandering the Waterfront Trail in Scarborough

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

At the bottom of the Scarborough Bluffs, west of Bluffer’s Park Lake Ontario, like all five of the Great Lakes, is more a freshwater sea than merely a lake. It’s over three hundred kilometres long, from Hamilton to Kingston, bordering … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Downtown Brampton’s streetscape

Posted on February 25, 2017 by

The City of Brampton is looking to improve Main and Queen Streets downtown. Continue reading →

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Where the sidewalk ends in Toronto (Updated)

Posted on March 16, 2016 by

McNicoll Avenue at Boxdene Avenue. There’s no sidewalk on the south side of this busy Scarborough road. Update: I posted a revised and updated version of the map and article on Spacing Toronto. There, I mention a new absurdity in the war … Continue reading →

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