- Allen Road
Resource Type: Article
William R. Allen Road is a short expressway in Toronto. The portion south of Sheppard Avenue was originally constructed as part of the Spadina Expressway project. The Spadina Expressway was a proposed north-south freeway, intended to connect downtown Toronto to the suburb of North York, and to serve the Yorkdale Shopping Centre project. It was only partially built before being cancelled in 1971 due to public opposition. It was proposed in the mid-1950s as part of a network of freeways for Metro Toronto. Its cancellation prompted the cancellation of the rest of the network.
- American Ground Transport
A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Bus and Rail Industries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1961
By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
- Canadian Institute of Planners
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Urban Transit Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
- Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
- Free transit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A pamphlet which gathers together a number of essays on the struggle for public transit. It emerges especially out of the urban context of Toronto. But the essays speak also to the wider crisis of public transit in North America, and the importance of this demand to an eco-socialist vision of feasible futures.
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- How it all adds up
$4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
- How Things Don't Work
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Pananek and Hennessey focus on appliances, tooks, and devices that are at the nub of modern living. They show how some of our most cherished possessions, ranging from simple household fixtures to sophisticated electronics, don't work, and challenge us to rethink the uses of technology to demand and create products that are useful, built to human scale, safe, ecologically sound, and inexpensive.
- Largest Urban Cable Car Soars Over 'Desperate' Commuters of La Paz
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The La Paz region's new cable car system will transform the lives of commuters between La Paz, Bolivia and the mountaintop of El Alto, who currently have to zigzag up the slope in horrible traffic. But will everyone be able to afford it?
- A New City Agenda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
- No Fares!
Time for a free ride on public transit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, and asks: Why are we creating barriers for people who might take public transit?
- Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- People vs expressways battle is on again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The battle against expressways is on again. The plan for a grid of expressways that would rip into the city of Toronto, supposedly buried by the Davis government in 1971, has been resurrected. After being beaten back five years ago, the expressway proponents are crawling out of the woodwork with their old plans, with only the tactics and the terminology changed.
- Public Transit
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
- The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Toronto Talks Transit with Herman Rosenfeld
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
Herman Rosenfeld speaks about transit issues in Toronto, and the campaign for good affordable public transit
- Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
- Transport Action Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Transportation Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Trolleycars
Streetcars, Trams and Trolleys of North America: A Photographic History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- What Happened to the Streetcars?
Killed by General Motors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The history of how car companies bought up and destroyed public transit systems in the first half the the twentieth century to eliminate alternatives to the automobile.
- What would Rosa Parks do today?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
If Rosa Parks was taking action against transit racism today, she likely wouldn’t talk about segregated seating. Instead, she would be calling attention to disappearing service and unaffordable fares in communities that need transit the most.
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