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@moore_oliver

Deviant pedestrian. I care about cities and write editorials for The Globe and Mail. Essentially inactive here. Find me where the skies are blue

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Cop-speak is a hell of a thing. Guy is alleged to have run over his ex-girlfriend then chopped off her hand and the official description of the incident is “an altercation occurred between an 18-year-old male and a 16-year-old female” cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

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CEO out at NEOM, the top-down-run fantasy city being built in Saudi. No idea the backstory, but as I've said before, the future of cities is not building new ones that attempt to eliminate the messy complexities inherent in cities saudigazette.com.sa/article/646984…

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"Let kids be kids. As cities grow, the public street is an important shared space. It should be an extension of home, and a place to play out a rite of childhood" theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

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The system works.. Speed camera on Toronto road pissed off someone enough that s/he sawed it down. But also showed a decline in the number of people ticketed -- down 30pc yoy in September thestar.com/news/gta/one-o…

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"Pack lightly...to be free from porters, taxi drivers and bellhops. Stay in pensions; take the room without the bath. Eat in restaurants patronized by locals. Try to engage locals in conversation. Study maps. Take public transportation. Buy a Eurail pass." nytimes.com/2024/11/18/boo…

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The day has arrived. 45 years after pedestrians were first barricaded from crossing the street at Winnipeg’s storied Portage and Main intersection, the concrete walls have finally started coming down.

The day has arrived. 
45 years after pedestrians were first barricaded from crossing the street at Winnipeg’s storied Portage and Main intersection, the concrete walls have finally started coming down.