Toronto

Canada’s PM: no money for cities

In Canada, Federalism, Finance, Toronto on 9 November 2007 with no comments

On behalf of Canada’s cities, Premier Dalton McGuinty asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper for money. What did the cities want?
Toronto Mayor David Miller has been asking that one percentage point of the federal GST be given to municipalities, which would mean $410 million a year to help the city build and maintain roads, bridges and [...]

The greening of Toronto’s parking lots

In Atlanta, Design, Environment, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Toronto on 6 November 2007 with no comments

Atlanta could learn something from a pilot project for creating more efficient and appealing parking lots within Toronto. Spacing Toronto writes:
the City of Toronto is piloting new design guidelines for “greening” surface parking lots. The proposals include measures to address many of the major environmental problems, and in the process, they address some of the [...]

Countdown signals work

In Design, Innovation, Safety, Toronto, Transportation on 18 October 2007 with no comments

Newly installed countdown pedestrian signals have been given much of the credit for saving the lives of Toronto pedestrians this year. Stamping out the unnecessarily ambiguous is not only good design, it’s good urban policy.