Wednesday, May 1, 2024

rita smith

Feature/Profile

The Bloor Street Viaduct: could it become a recreational zone?

Now, Farrow Partners envision the viaduct as part of a city recreation system, with its five lanes of car traffic reduced to 3 lanes (one for parking): “Market Bridge at the Prince Edward Viaduct is a practical and farsighted civic idea that hopes to reimagine this much beloved historic infrastructure, through a community-based co-creation process, as a new civic, social, and pedestrian centred destination for Toronto. A generous new pedestrian realm for the city, that could mix public space, plazas with public art, and socially driven market stalls housed in mixed use market-like pavilions,” Farrow writes on its website.

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Opinion/ColumnTaxi industry newsTrucking

Maybe Uber will be able to accomplish in Trucking what it’s failed to do in Taxi: turn a profit while drivers earn a fair living

Reading coverage of the Transplace purchase and other recent Uber-themed articles in logistics media, you could almost get the impression that Uber is a profitable, efficient company generously looking to share its success with outdated trucking and logistics industries that have somehow struggled along without its help for a century.

In fact, none of the cold, hard data supports this idea.

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