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Lately, wanting to enjoy a different walking route home, I've been disembarking from the subway at the St. Clair station and walking home on St. Clair Avenue, a west-east street that's the first of the major midtown streets. Daren Foster's Torontoist post explores the consequences of the construction of a controversial streetcar right-of-way on St ( Read more... )

Towards the end of my bike commute to my Dupont Street home from my midtown place of employment, I was struck by the ways in which my mental maps fail. The east-to-west Dupont Street is almost midway between Bloor Street West to the south and St. Clair Avenue West to the north. It's about ten minutes' walk south from Dupont to Bloor, and a bit ( Read more... )