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City destroys natural front garden (Spacing Wire)
To me, this bylaw is deeply misguided. In an era in which we are ever more aware of environmental issues, why would we insist on lawns that require intense watering and regular cutting with usually energy-sucking and carbon-dioxide-emitting mowers? This is the kind of bylaw we need to rethink if we are going to change ourselves into a truly green city.
By the numbers — our sustainable city (Spacing Wire)
Thought the big city was all smog and traffic jams and pavement? As it turns out, Toronto is Ontario’s most sustainable municipality, according to a recent study by the Pembina Institute.
Bikers hitting bollards at the Boulevard Club (Toronto Star)
Metal poles installed on either side of a laneway that crosses the Martin Goodman Trail were meant to reduce collisions between vehicles and people on bicycles, but cyclists are now smashing into the poles.
Trashing the bike lane (Dodgeville)
whoever puts the bins out for this apartment building apparently thinks that the solid white line on the road is to keep traffic away from his garbage.
Seven-Year-Old Girl on Bike Dies After Being Hit By Car In Scarborough
Tragedy in Scarborough. It makes me sick with sympathy for her family to write about it, so here's links to a bunch of news articles about it.
Outlawned: City Destroys Wild Garden (Reading Toronto)
By hacking down Deborah Dale's garden because it consists of plants 'out of place' the City has revealed not only its aesthetic distaste for the unkempt but a deeper distrust of anything unruly. In this sense Toronto's 'clean and beautiful city' becomes a prescription not only for appearance but behaviour as well. How far this extends -- to citizens, perhaps, who have a tendency to roil noisily in the streets -- one can only guess.
Biking for breast cancer (DurhamRegion.com)
Stacy Chafe said she just wanted to do something to help others affected by breast cancer when she rode her mountain bike from Scarborough to Whitby to raise money for research recently.
The TTC wants your input (Spacing Wire)
Torontoist commenters have pointed out that when the survey asks what you would do if fares were increased or routes were cut, walking and biking aren’t presented as options.Labels: news
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