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Short excerpt of a walk I did with Tasha Alexson through Regina’s downtown. We checked out a mural devoted to local restaurateur Robert Gardikiotis who worked hard to try and make Regina’s downtown a vibrant destination in the face of bad decisions by major property owners and City Councils.

Excerpt of a walk with Shawn Micallef along Bloor Street in Toronto.

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social is the author of “Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto” and a regular contributor to Spacing magazine and the Toronto Star. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @spacing.bsky.social @thestar.com

The first walk shot for Project Pedestrian was across Paris to visit the tomb of the great filmmaker Agnès Varda.

As we were passing through Luxembourg Gardens, a woman ahead of us had hair that seemed Varda inspired.

I really enjoyed talking with Tasha Alexson about her walking experiences, and Tash and I did a walk in some of Regina's under-construction downtown, and a part of Regina we've both lived in, just south of the downtown.

Such a pleasure to talk with Matthew R. Anderson about his books "The Good Walk" and "Someone Else's Saint", about walking on the prairies, and pilgrimage.

Matthew lives in Nova Scotia but was in Saskatchewan last week for the 10th anniversary of the walk from Wood Mountain to the Cypress Hills.

Pedestrians in Regina are required to push a “beg button” to get a green light.

In Toronto beg buttons have largely been replaced by automatic pedestrian green lights, which go green several seconds before vehicles get a green light to try and protect pedestrians from careless right hand turns.

It was such a pleasure to meet Shawn Micallef to talk about his book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, and a variety of walking related matters for Project Pedestrian.

Shawn and I also did a walk together in the neighbourhood around Dufferin Grove. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social

Resumed shooting in a very different environment than Lyon. Scarborough, ON saw a lot of growth in the 1950s when the emphasis was on roads for cars and trucks. On the upside, there are numerous strip malls housing a wide range of independent businesses and lots of places to get delicious food.

The German city of Trier remembers its native son Karl Marx with a few transit signals near the street where he was born. Unlike the city of Regina where I live, pedestrians in Trier don’t need to press a “beg button” in order to get a green Karl, it’s a part of the regular cycle of lights.

An early influence on what is becoming Project Pedestrian is Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 book The Songlines, which made me think about walking as more than just a means to get from point a to point b. Nicholas Shakespeare writes about Chatwin and The Songlines: nicholasshakespeare.com/writing/bruc...

I didn't know much about Lyon before arriving, and in the first few days it became apparent what a good city this is to walk in.

Traboules are internal passageways that connect buildings and streets. It was seeing a traboule in the film "Reise nach Lyon" that got me interested in coming to Lyon.