Crushing flex posts
Not to boast, but the other day I crushed a flex post with my car.
I didn’t mean to, of course. I was in downtown Detroit on my way to the Delray
2. Urbanism
Show me your transit tunes
My Ottawa Citizen column this week was inspired by the announcement, from the City, that the busking program was going to make a comeback on the LRT.
We knew this was coming. It
Repeat after me: Design matters
I live, as you may have heard, in Westboro. Earlier today I had to drive downtown to rescue two of my favourite teenagers from the teeth of springtime weather and I noticed new
The unbearable lightness of speeding
I love speed cameras because they make people angry for getting caught doing the wrong thing.
Yet they are easy to avoid, unlike a speed trap on the highway. They don’t move,
We tried nothing, and it didn't work
It was just an irritated tweet of the kind I throw out into the world every single day. But this one hit a nerve.
Why we always do the wrong thing is beyond