DIY Bike Box and Bike Lane in Saskatoon

CBC Link https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6505196

McDonnell Sharrows Redux

New Book On DIY Urbanism (Oxford University Press)

The Help-Yourself City

Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism

Gordon C.C. Douglas

• Combines cultural and urban sociology with urban planning, policy, and design scholarship
• Includes more than 100 interviews with do-it-yourself urban designers, planning and design professionals, and community members in 17 cities
• Appraises the under-studied and widely-celebrated trend of DIY urbanism to highlight the implications for urban planning, community development, and how everyday people engage with urban policy and urban space itself

OogleEyes DIY Crosswalk

                        Dufferin Grove Park Entrance September 2017

Update: Removed by city staff late October, 2017

Maximum 10 - Kensington Market

Update: Two of the 10km speed limit signs were still in place in early April 2017, more than 6 months after installation.

(Nassau and Kensington)

Articles:
BlogTO:

http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/09/someone_changed_the_speed_limit_in_kensington_market/

Indie88:
http://indie88.com/someone-changed-the-speed-limit-signs-in-kensington-market/
Toronto Sun:
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/16/fake-speed-limit-posted-in-kensington-market
NOW
https://nowtoronto.com/news/think-free-blog/urban-repair-squad-lowers-speed-limit-in-kensington/
More photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/albums/72157670569560794

Post City: http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/October-2016/Guerilla-Urban-Repair-Squad-hits-Toronto/

Video: https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/with/29496806220/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shawnmicallef/status/808059767063187460

January 2017

With Love from Edmonton

Source: http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/city-crews-clean-up-diy-bike-lane-on-saskatchewan-drive-1.2948774#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=Q04pHrN

Harbord Halloween Bike Lane

http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/10/harbord_gets_a_halloween_themed_bike_lane/

Cycle Toronto Pop-up Bike Lane on Bloor

With Love From Calgary

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/frustrated-communities-try-to-slow-down-speeding-drivers-themselves

Toronto DIY Culture - Review

  Toronto DIY Culture

Bike Lanes On Bloor-Danforth

Nearly 10 years ago, the Urban Repair Squad painted this guerrilla bike lane on Bloor near Bathurst. Today, local cyclists, residents and businesses are still demanding that they should be installed.

New Doc Bikes vs Cars - We Are Many (Trailer & Kickstarter)

The director, Fredrik Gertten recently started a Kickstarter Project
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fredrik-gertten/bikes-vs-cars-we-are-many
Highly recommended.
BIKES vs CARS TRAILER from WG Film on Vimeo.

cARTographyTO - One Year Later: A look back

With Love from Ottawa - The Rampette

via WestSideAction
http://www.westsideaction.com/city-hall-employees-should-not-read-this/

THUNK! (Pothole Onomatopoeia Redux)

"THUNK!" North of Queen West & Claremont
Torontoist: http://torontoist.com/2013/05/spotted-pothole-warnings/

Wile E. Ford Mural (AGO)

Installation/Mural produced as part of the video series 'Whitewash' by Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette http://nowexhibition.com/ for the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Pottery Road Before & After Re-design

Giant SLOW stencil installed by URS earlier in the spring works better in terms slowing down traffic speeds just before the busy Don Valley Trail crossing.


Below is the current design as it is today.

This Space Available Documentary

'PublicAdCampaign is excited to announce the world premier of the full length documentary film This Space Available, on November 5th at 7pm. The film investigates the topic of Visual Pollution in our global community through the eyes of industry insiders, governmental agencies and public activists like myself. While I have yet to see the film myself, I expect the film to be an even handed account of this pressing global issue meant to spur debate on the topic and build a critical platform on which further discussion can occur. There will be a Q&A after the screening for anyone who would like to discuss the issue further with the participants and film makers. 

To purchase tickets for the This Space Available premier at the DOC NYC fest at the IFC theater on 11-05-11, please visit the DOC NYC website [HERE].' 

Lego My Bike Lane

Dupont Street Toronto.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Lego my bike lane! 

This morning Toronto's Urban Repair Squad (URS) got down to fixing the city's broken infrastructure once again. The City's recent and mind-boggling financial investment in the removal of cycling safety infrastructure motivated the anonymous group of urban citizens to bring their construction kits to the corner of Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue. Goal: To repair damage done to the Dupont bicycle lane three weeks prior. Is Dupont Street a throughway for all urban commuters to traverse the East and West parameters of the city? The Urban Repair Squad thinks so. Streets need to work for everyone, not just cars. Commuters on bicycles continue to use Dupont as their necessary travel route to work, eat, and play. But, their infrastructure needs are being pulled out from under their... wheels. Urban Repair Squad holds true to a vision of a fairer city that adapts to the diversity of our citizens' transportation choices. In response to the removal of the Dupont lanes, for the duration of this morning's rush hour, the squad re-installed a more flexible, modular system of bike lane infrastructure. This installation is proof that building a safe cycling infrastructure is really just child's play.
This action was done in solidarity with cyclists who use Birchmount and Pharmacy, whose bike lane's are being removed as we write.
Councillor Ana Bailao's response to proposed removal, posted July 22, 2011: http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/councillor-ana-bailao-proposes-reversible-centre-lane-on-dupont/

Articles: http://torontoist.com/2011/10/spotted-lego-my-bike-lane/
http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/10/dupont_gets_a_lego_bike_lane_for_a_few_hours/
Spotted: NOW Magazine Oct. 13, 2011

More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/sets/72157627694362053/

An Artist Quoted

"Sometimes you have to fight danger with danger." - Roadsworth, on the perceived dangers of painting artwork onto public roads. Toronto, Sept. 28, 2011.