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Bike Share Toronto Shifts Into a Higher Gear

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Cyclists are now able to tour more of Toronto

The Bike Share Toronto network, which launched in 2011, recently expanded outside the downtown core with 120 new stations. Using a mobile app, riders can now check out and return bikes at stations as far west as Dundas West, as far east as Main Street and as far north as St. Clair. Funded in part by Metrolinx, the expansion introduces rental racks near many transit stops encouraging commuters to get active. bikesharetoronto.com

Originally published in Issue 4, 2016 as Urban Update: Tour de Toronto.

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The Bentway’s playful installation of 50 trees in shopping carts shines a light on climate resilience and green equity

In a city grappling with rising temperatures, accelerated development and increasing inequity in green space accessibility, Moving Forest arrives not as a solution, but as an invitation to rethink our relationship with nature. Designed by NL Architects as a part of The Bentway’s Sun/Shade exhibition, this outlandish yet purposeful installation transforms a fleet of 50 shopping carts into mobile vessels for native trees—red maples, silver maples, sugar maples and autumn blaze—that roll through some of Toronto’s most sun-scorched plazas, creating impromptu oases of shade and community.

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