Featured Stories

Getting out of gridlock: The scramble to save the scramble & other adventures in TO transportation

Yonge Street Staff Wednesday, January 25, 2012

If Torontonians could only depoliticize the debate over transportation, we all might get further faster. Panelists at Yonge Street's Feet & Wheels event had more than a few ideas about how to improve the city's streets for everybody—and so did attendees.

City Building, infrastructure, Speaker Series, Transportation

Vaughan's towering new ambitions

Bert Archer Wednesday, December 14, 2011

With the Expo City development, Vaughan mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua is seeking to define his city with a dense new downtown core. Can globally inspired design create vibrant urbanity in sleepy suburbia?

City Building, infrastructure

Vaughan

Sharing cars makes sharing the city a little easier

Bert Archer Wednesday, November 09, 2011

The growth of car-sharing services like Autoshare and Zipcar suggests it's ownership of vehicles, not access to them, that's the biggest contributor to Toronto's gridlock.

City Building, conservation, infrastructure, Sustainability, Transportation

At the tipping point: How the next year is crucial to the rollout of electric vehicles

Paul Gallant Wednesday, September 28, 2011

As industry players gather in Toronto this week to talk about the national rollout of electric vehicles, the trickiest part of the equation is getting consumers to change their ideas about what's makes for a good ride. Mike Elwood, chair of Electric Mobility Canada, tells us about the road ahead.

electric vehicles, infrastructure, Sustainability, Transportation

Mississauga