We’ve been quite fond in the past of linking to articles from Spacing, the fantastic Toronto-based urbanism magazine. Now, CiO readers should be sure to subscribe to their new Ottawa blog, where they cover such issues as Lansdowne, pedestrian bridges and Big Joe Mufferaw. As well, in Spacing Radio #012, you can hear Spacing Ottawa [...]

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Gobiking.ca is a great site which provides details about a number of cycling routes both in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Seeing as I will be moving to Kingston for two months this summer, the site is particularly useful for giving me some weekend trip ideas. Having taken many of these trips over my years in [...]

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During my spring break from school I headed down to California and bicycled with three friends along the coast. They’re all McGill alums who are cycling around the US. They left Salt Spring Island in January and are going to wind up on Rhode Island this summer. The details of their story, and the raison [...]

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There is good news for Google Maps users like myself – those tired of its “Get Directions” feature being primarily designed for cars, making you respect one-way streets and incorporating speed limits into the calculations: Google has announced it will now offer walking directions. I discovered, for example, that apparently I spent 3 years taking [...]

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You can now plan your OC Transpo trips with the slick, user-friendly and efficient Google Transit.

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