'Questions On Harbord Linger'

Harbord Street with parking on the right side instead of a continuous bike lane into the University of Toronto. The bright yellow stencil by the Urban Repair Squad resurfaces after being painted over with tar by city workers last fall.

URBANITÉS INATTENDUES - Opening Today

More info: CMAV

Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville
Toulouse

http://www.cmaville.org/article-urbanites-inattendues-67154831.html

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Exhibition developed and presented by the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Toulouse in partnership with AERA, with the kind cooperation of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal Scientific commissioner Enrico Chapel, architect, teacher.

The exhibition presents a selection of urban situations which are defined at the crossroads architecture, art and politics: reversible and temporary buildings, plant, scenes, art, participative, gardens, play areas, informal settlements which are built ... or "self-build 'next steps of DIY', low-tech and ready-mades. The aim is to question their use value and symbolic value. To what extent these various situations they promote constructive appropriation of urban space and participation unscheduled fate of contemporary cities?

Sao Paulo: Cyclists Square Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago, cycling activists claimed a small square in central Sao Paulo for all cyclists.
The rest is history.

Billboard Hack

 http://wins.failblog.org/2010/04/12/culture-jamming-win-go-by-bike/

URS Goes To France (Toulouse)

Photographs and video of the work by URS will be on display in the upcoming exhibition at the Centre Méridional de l’Architecture et de la Ville, Toulouse, France.


The exhibition will open on February 26 and will run until 28 May, 2011. The exhibition deals with unexpected urban inter-ventions and urban actions, and 
is titled: Urbanités inattendues. Actions architecturales en ville.


Info: http://www.cmaville.org/

Common Sense by Yehuda Moon

Via http://www.yehudamoon.com

With Love From Guadalajara (Mexico)

Via Treehugger

With Love From Madrid

Art by Luzinterruptus: Carril bici efímero / Ephemeral bike lane

2010 Bike Plan News - FREE COUPONS

Open publication - Free publishing - More bike lanes

Ideas

Dreaming on 8th Street

Dreaming on 8th Street (Traverse City, MI) Underutilized Parking Lane
Originally uploaded by MyWheelsareTurning

Urban Repair Squad Toronto Google Map

View Urban Repair Squad Repairs in a larger map

With Love From Baltimore

In the middle of the night, on Monday, July the 26th (or more correctly, the morning of the 27th) a group of activist artists made a bold statement on the streets of Baltimore. They left behind a bike lane, stencil art, and their manifesto which reads:

"The Guerrilla Bike Lane arose from a desire to express ourselves and our passion for an escalating need to reduce the use of fossil fuels. We seek to promote and establish fair and safe riding conditions for cyclists in Baltimore. The intention of our guerrilla artwork is to educate the public using environmentally friendly and creative means in a non-aggressive way. We hope this will serve as a catalyst for people to see and build the community within the city, to consciously take action instead of settling for an inactive way of life."

Where will the GBL gang strike next? Only time will tell.

Fine Vimeo Video here: http://vimeo.com/14125301

Toronto's First Bike Boxes - By Urban Repair Squad

Cyclometer says: Bike Boxes for the Harbord- Hoskin and College Bicycle Lanes
Weather permitting, the installation of Toronto’s first Bike boxes (PDF) are scheduled to begin Monday October 4th. Bike boxes are a pavement marking that designates a space for cyclists to wait in front of cars at a red light, and to proceed first when the light turns green. The new design treatment will be evaluated for use in the future at other intersections across the City. Bike boxes are scheduled to be installed this year, at the following locations:

Harbord-Hoskin and St George (north, south, east and west bound)
Hoskin and Queens Park Crescent (eastbound)
Harbord and Spadina (east and westbound)
College and Spadina (east and westbound)
College and St George-Beverley (north, south, east and west bound)

Note Bene: The claim that these are the 'first' is of course inaccurate.
The city removed the actual first bike boxes installed by the Urban Repair Squad Harbord and Bathurst (Oct. 2008) 9 (photo below)

With Love From Missoula (Montana)

Activists paint sharrows in multiple colours on a very dangerous road section in Missoula.

Aurash of DoTank drawing a 'sharrow'

Aurash of DoTank drawing a 'sharrow'
Originally uploaded by Ted Ullrich

Long Island New York

The Macdonell Sharrows

Another Toronto First - Two-way Sharrows

Graphic from the Urban Repair Squad Manual

Articles:
Treehugger

BlogTO http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/10/two-way_sharrows_appear_on_macdonell_avenue/

Torontoist http://torontoist.com/2010/10/macdonnell_gets_two-way_sharrows_on_the_sly.php#comments

http://www.ibiketo.ca/blog/2010/10/13/two-way-sharrows-toronto-another-innovation-urban-repair-squad

First Colour Bike Lane (Bloor)
First Rush Hour Sharrows
First Humanist Sharrow Design
First Toronto Bike Boxes
First Bike Friendly TTC signage
First Bicycle and Pedestrian City Logo
First Toronto Art Crosswalk
First Pothole Warning System
First Missing Bike Lane Design
First Two-way Sharrows

With Love From Halifax

Photo by Emma Feltes

New Urban Repair Squad paints up Halifax! Fine work!

More info on Spacing Halifax