Blog

I am in favour of toll roads. So are Americans. Their argument for toll roads is that they keep taxes down and sustain infrastructure. Maybe that’s why Canadians are so opposed. A country whose national identity is based on “not” being American must take…

It all begins with its beaches. Tropea offers some of the most welcoming in the Mediterranean, among them Il Palombaro, Cannone and Mare Grande. We spent most of our days on la spiaggia della rotonda, a 15-minute walk from Palazzo Mottola that includes a steep…

Cyclists. Drivers. Pedestrians. They have a strained relationship. Read any news story and you’ll hear how poorly they get along. It’s war. This is a strange phenomenon, given that all three fit in the category “people.” But that’s what labels do. They split us….

Social media howled at the latest instalment of Autopilot outrage. It showed the driver of a Tesla, in what appeared to be a state of deep slumber, motoring along the Queen Elizabeth Way in southern Ontario while the vehicle used Autopilot to navigate. Of course,…

f you want to play, you’ve got to pay. You won’t find this philosophy written in the margins of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, nor carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty, but it permeates most of our post-capitalist-midday-Marxist-pre-apocalypse society. Congestion…

There are trips and there are drives. Trips are made back and forth without much fanfare. You make a “trip” to the store. Drives leave an impression. Drives are tied to an occasion or special destination. You’ll always remember the first time you drove…

At first, Catherine Davis thought some kids had played a prank. On the front lawn of her Riverdale home were two piles: one a pile of thirty severed hands, the other a pile of thirty severed feet. Seated in a plastic chair at the…

Visibility is a key issue. In cities such as Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, there are more charging stations than gas stations. You just don’t notice them because they’re smaller and spread out in parking garages and other locations. Mobile apps such as ChargeHub, Chargeway, ChargePoint and (bucking the “put-the-word-charge-in-your-name” trend) EVgo, help EV drivers locate the nearest charging station.

I’m referring to the “drifters,” motorists who, due to fatigue, distraction or ambivalence, drift from their vehicle’s lane into an adjoining one. Sometimes drivers glide slowly in and out, or absentmindedly straddle the hash marks and appropriate two lanes. At other times, they jerk…

For now, at least, in Ontario, the police are not allowed to stop pedestrians and ask them if their walk is essential or pull over cars and ask if it is really of the utmost importance for them to be on the road. They…