via Cycle Toronto: Like you, we were extremely disappointed by the 24-19 loss at City Council on Oct 2nd to save the Jarvis St bike lanes. Cycle Toronto organized, held community meetings, held 2 large rides, launched a legal challenge and submitted a large petition. Community members wrote their councillors and demonstrated against the decision. [...]
The Puente de Luz (Bridge of Light) is finally set to open, giving CityPlace residents traveling on foot or by bike a welcome escape route to the city at large. Spanning 125 metres over the busy rail corridor to the west of Union Station, the north end of the bridge terminates at the foot of Portland Street, just a [...]
As you may be aware, the City is in the planning stages of a project to improve the Beltline Trail. We have launched an online petition at cycleto.ca/beltline. If you haven’t yet signed our paper petition, please sign the online petition now. And pass the word along to your neighbours! Let’s make a strong statement to the City [...]
It’s a big, fat problem for public health officials. But Peel Region has decided to stop counting calories and start shedding the guilt as it confronts ballooning obesity rates with some radical new medicine. Instead of scolding people to eat right and exercise, the region wants its planners and policy makers to start designing [...]
On October 2, 2012, Toronto City Council voted 24-19 to remove the Jarvis Street bike lanes. By the end of 2012, the City will have fewer kilometres of on-street bike lanes than it did at the end of 2009. Despite increased ridership, City Hall has been reducing safe on-street cycling infrastructure and dismantling the bike lane [...]
Very interesting post from Toronto Standard about the options we have to keep Toronto from grinding to a halt due to too many people driving cars: A recent study ranked Toronto the ninth most congested city in North America and according to the Ontario ministry of finance, population of the GTA will increase by 2.8 million, or [...]
I fly out of town for business approximately once every month. There are many different ways to get to the airport from my home downtown. I normally take public transit, but will occasionally take a taxi if I am running late or if I have an early morning flight. I have been longing to ride [...]
One of the most ambitious studies of bicycle injuries ever conducted in Canada has reach a conclusion that won’t surprise anyone who rides to work: It is far safer to travel on a physically separated bike lane than on busy city streets. The research, led by Prof. Kay Teschke of the University of British Columbia’s [...]
In Beijing, by the end of 2010 there were almost 5 million cars on the streets of that city of 20 million people (the 26th largest city in China by population). In 2010 alone there were over 800,000 new cars that were registered in Beijing. Near the end 2010, the Beijing government realized that there [...]
A study by the University of British Columbia, published on October 18, 2012 in theAmerican Journal of Public Health, reveals that certain types of routes carry a much lower risk of injury for cyclists. The routes with the lowest risk to cyclists include bike lanes on major streets without parked cars, residential street bike routes, off-street [...]
The City of Toronto is finally getting a separated bike lane. It’s on Sherbourne Street, a block east of the soon to be painted out Jarvis Street bike lanes that keep city councillors from getting home in time for dinner. The separation is a rounded bump that is too big for a cyclist to cross easily [...]
Back in June 2011, city staff said that Bixi Toronto would break even financially at around 6,000 members. Now that it has more than 5,000 I am optimistic that it can grow sensibly and without borrowing money. BIXI Toronto, the city’s fledgling bike-lending program, is due for an upgrade. Since it came online last [...]
Good news… the BlogTO post says they are “entirely new bikelanes”, but this is false… there are currently bikelanes here already. Still smarting from the loss of the Jarvis Street bike lanes, which were officially condemned at the last council meeting, Toronto’s cyclists have been taking plenty on the chin lately. Well, time for some [...]
One final effort to save the Jarvis Street bicycle lanes from removal was kiboshed after city council voted on Tuesday to move ahead of the lanes’ eradication. Many are left bitter. Those in the “Save Jarvis” camp, including city councillors, cycling activists and private citizens, put up a valiant fight to rescue the bike lanes [...]
Advertising good, bikes bad [Dodgeville] Enough has been written about these stupid info pillars elsewhere that I won’t bore you with another diatribe against their design or the questionable process that resulted in the city being saddled with them in the first place. This one is in front of Carrot Common on Danforth and in [...]
