The Toronto Star had a involving various essays on the potential future for the city. An by Mayor David Miller is followed by ideas about to more ethnic groups, how to tackle the , and legalizing .
The main spread features a collection of articles that try to solve the commuting problem that has been steadily getting worse in the GTA. 
about the idea of the , a series of highways for biking (and perhaps roller-blading as well). Andrew Alfred-Duggan’s Toronto Rapid Transit Guide of the TTC. This popular imagining of a subway map set in the future includes express lines in the downtown core, an that stretched from the to , extending the Bloor line to and the , and a few new lines as well. This map was notably featured in .
To top it all off, of a inter-connected mini cities built around train hubs, such as , Peterborough and . The idea of building places of work directly into these destinations reduces the need for last-mile bus networks and allows urban transit providers to focus on dedicated regular service between major hubs, reducing the need for workers to commute from suburb to suburb.
Remember me telling you about the Velo-City last year? I still think that would be a pretty good idea, and would definately make Toronto stand out from other big cities. (Because that is just one step closer to our views of “the future”)
I don’t remember you mentioning it, but I had heard of it before.
Another crazy idea I once read about was building a giant suspension bridge (like the long ones that are build these days) and putting a new highway/cycling path right through downtown on it.
In the drawings I saw, it looked like the bridge went right through downtown, and the article even talked about making the pillars into apartment buildings that arched over the bridge. How crazy would that be?
Some criticism of some of the articles has popped up on , and the a few stray comments on the articles.