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"Cycling to work had become so popular that bicycle rooms, sometimes with over 200 parking spots, were created, or planned, at a number of office buildings and institutions, including the then Union Station (just west of its current location), the music conservatory, and at Confederation Life on Richmond Street where Mayor Fleming had his business office. The plans for Toronto's new City Hall (completed in 1899) included two bicycle rooms. The Board of Trade, to dissuade employees and tenants from parking in the building's corridors, was planning to add a room for 100 bicycles. At the twelve-storey Temple Building, the city's tallest skyscraper at its completion in 1896, cyclists could park their vehicles and, for a small fee, have them repaired and cleaned."

— Wheeling Through Toronto by Albert Koehl (Page 5 - 7)

"By 1896, a number of bicycle paths had been built in and around the city, including a cinder path along the Lakeshore Road, from Sunnyside (near the foot of Roncesvalles Avenue) to the Humber River, with ambitions to extend it to Mimico and beyond."

— Wheeling Through Toronto by Albert Koehl (Page 24)

In his inaugural address in January 1896 as Toronto's new mayor, Robert Fleming promised road improvements for the benefit of cyclists. Fleming, sometimes known as "the Peoples Bob" said that part of each street should be paved with the most suitable material for cycling, adding that "strips" on streets "where asphalt or brick does not now exist, should be put in first-class shape for bicycle riders." He added that parts of the street should be graded and paved with special attention to "the comfort of those using wheels." The Globe, in commenting on the speech observed, The bicyclist feels that he is becoming a power in the land just now. News of Fleming's speech even crossed the Atlantic where a commentator in London's Lady's Pictorial wrote (exaggerating the mayor's words) that Toronto that city of telephones and blonde beauties - is going ahead in the matter of bicycling. News is to hand that the Mayor-elect intends to put down a cycling track in every new street that is constructed. "

— Wheeling Through Toronto by Albert Koehl (Page 22 - 23)

In 1895, an estimated 18,000 bicycles were sold in Toronto - an impressive number for a city that counted 196,000 people. Some buyers were repeat customers replacing old bicycles to keep up with year-over-year changes. The city's 1896 directory listed eighty bicycle shops, but other enterprises such as drug and hardware stores also sold bicycles to take advantage of the growing demand.

— Wheeling Through Toronto by Albert Koehl (Page 7)

The woods were shrubby and shitty and full of ticks. It was the kind of embarrassing midwest excuse for a forest that is both the result of clear- cutting and that makes me think a second clearcut would, just in this one case, be an improvement.

— We Won't Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy (Page 193)

Honestly, with her skills and drive and education and upbringing—but minus her criminal record, perhaps—she could have been the mark we were about to rob. She could have had his job and his life and his underlings and his investments. But as she told me once, stealing felt a lot more honest when it was illegal.

— We Won't Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy (Page 158)

"I think the reason we don't call our boxes "drones" much anymore is because it would be a shame to compare something as cool as semi-autonomous robots to human drones at office jobs."

— We Won't Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy (Page 56)

A landscape that demands vehicles is a demanding landscape for the poor, for the simple reason that driving is expensive.

— City Limits by Megan Kimble (Page 180)

Jay scoffed - a highway was Culberson's pride and joy? And then he wondered: Were cars moving faster than they had been before the highway was expanded? He looked at Houston's travel time data, comparing how long it took to drive on I-10 during rush hour from downtown Houston to the far-flung suburb of Katy. In 2005, the thirty-mile trip took fifty-two minutes at rush hour. In 2014- only six years after the state had spent $2.8 billion to widen the highway- during rush hour that same trip took seventy minutes, an increase of 33 percent. The highway was wider, but traffic was worse. In May 2015, Jay summarized his findings in a four-hundred-word article that he posted on the website for Houston Tomorrow. The story spread across the state, and then the country, and then the world Soon, the Katy Freeway expansion had become the most famous example of the phenomenon known as induced demand: If you make it easier for people to drive, more people will drive

— City Limits by Megan Kimble (Page 142)

In 1944, a government report recommended that state and local authorities purchase needed lands for highways that would "aid in the efficient assembly and appropriate redevelopment of large tracts of blighted urban lands." As the Interstate Highway Act was being written, the American Association of State Highway Officials sent lobbyists to D.C. to influence the legislation. Alfred Johnson, the group's executive director, later recalled that "some city officials ex- pressed the view in the mid-1950s that the urban Interstates would give them a good opportunity to get rid of the local n----rtown. "

— City Limits by Megan Kimble (Page 42)

All told, 1,220 structures were wiped from the Fifth Ward, including eleven churches, five schools, and two hospitals.

The idea to use interstate highways to remove "slums" and "blight" originated in the 1939 report Toll Roads and Free Roads, published by the highway engineer Thomas H. MacDonald. In it, MacDonald suggested that urban highways could serve a dual purpose: move cars and clear slums. "Citizens with adequate income"-white citizens- were leaving their homes in the center of the city in favor of the suburbs, he wrote. "The motor vehicle itself is the primary cause of this phenomenon."

— City Limits by Megan Kimble (Page 40 - 41)