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Toronto’s Cycling Apps

March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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On Friday, we let you know about the updated Toronto Bike Map, which plots out the city's bikelanes (using info from the Open Data project) and offers directions between addresses.  Yesterday, BlogTO reviewed all 4 Toronto cycling apps, and it's great information so we're going to do a quick rundown of them here for you (you can find more info on the BlogTO post): Toronto Bike Map App Price: Free This is the app to use if you want all of Toronto's bikelanes (and signed bike routes, and … [Read more...]

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Toronto Mobile Bike Map App Updated

March 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Toronto Bike Map App (available on iTunes for free) has been updated. The creator, Mike Lin, has made what I think is the best online bike map (it uses the City's Open Data information) even better by adding directions. You can punch in start and end points, and the app tells you the best way to get there. The app integrates with Bike Directions on Google Maps to accomplish this. Give it a try (it's free!) and let us know what you think. Some screenshots of the App: … [Read more...]

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New Toronto Bikeway Network Map

February 10, 2011 By 9 Comments
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PLEASE NOTE: this map was done as part of a graphic design exercise and does not claim to be complete or accurate. There's a cool new map of all of our downtown bikelanes, coined the "BWN" after BikeWay Network. You can really tell that the "network" needs a lot more... and the Jarvis bikelane isn't on there. Click the map for the full-size version (which still isn't that big) … [Read more...]

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2010 Bikeway Network Projects – Mapped

January 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Bike boxes have been added at the Spadina Avenue, St. George Street and Queen's Park Crescent intersections, along the Harbord Street – Hoskin Avenue corridor.

There is an excellent information resource in the latest issue of Cyclometer - a Google Map that shows all the Bikeway Projects started or completed in 2010, as well as photos on their facebook group of the projects: View 2010 Bikeway Network Projects in a larger map Project photos include: … [Read more...]

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Help the City of Toronto plan the 2011 Bike Map

December 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
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The City of Toronto has posted a survey online to get your feedback about the Toronto Cycling Map: The City of Toronto is conducting this survey to learn about how people are using the Map, what works, and what could be improved. Every year the City publishes and distributes 150,000 Cycling Maps free of charge. Go by the site and leave your feedback. Unfortunately it doesn't ask for features that people would like added to the map, but only how often existing features are used … [Read more...]

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Google Maps are up for Toronto’s Cyclists

November 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
Google bike maps go live in Toronto

BlogTO is breaking the news that Google Maps Bike Directions is now kinda-sorta working (it's a "beta" launch - which is used for working out glitches) for Toronto Bike routes: Google bike maps for Toronto launched in beta sometime earlier this afternoon, and I've been toying around with the route planner for the last half hour or so in an effort to evaluate its effectiveness. Unfortunately, based on this short little test, I can only give this initial version mixed reviews. From the … [Read more...]

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Google to map Toronto’s Bikelanes

November 22, 2010 By 5 Comments
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Big news for map lovers today!  Google Maps has announced that it will be mapping out the bikelanes of 8 Canadian Cities (including Toronto): The online information giant announced Monday that it is introducing a Bike Directions feature to its popular Google Maps site, allowing users to highlight bike-friendly trails and roads across most major Canadian cities. Google spokeswoman Wendy Rozeluk said the feature will be available countrywide, but more detailed route info will be available … [Read more...]

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On The Blogs: Bike Parking at Ryerson University

September 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Via Bikeroo in TO: Students and faculty at Ryerson University are very lucky to have one of the most exceptional examples of bicycle parking in all of Toronto. Ryerson’s campus features parking for roughly 1,000 bikes using racks, ring and posts, and an indoor parking facility. Read the full post on Bikeroo in TO. … [Read more...]

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A Map of Rossi’s Separated Bikelanes

September 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
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A few days ago we told you about Rocco Rossi's Flip-Flop on bikelanes on major streets (he likes the idea now). The Toronto Star has published a map (above) of where these physically-separate bikelanes would be. Rossi’s proposed network includes east-west lanes on Richmond St. between Parliament and Bathurst Sts., and the existing Wellesley Ave.-Harbord St. lane separated from traffic between Parliament and Ossington Ave. Cyclists travelling north-south would use the existing … [Read more...]

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2010 Toronto Cycling Map adds Bike Boxes

May 13, 2010 By 18 Comments

Each year, the City of Toronto releases a comprehensive map of cycling infrastructure and suggested routes. The map indicates bike locker locations, stairs with bicycle groves, bicycle rental locations and clearly indicates every bike lane and multi-use path throughout Toronto. With a stalled Bike Plan, the 2010 edition varies only slightly from its predecessor. One noticeable change is the addition of bike boxes to the illustrations explaining cycling infrastructure for cyclists (and … [Read more...]

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Best Bike Lane Toronto: Week 1 Nominations

April 16, 2010 By 5 Comments
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On Monday, April 12, 2010, BikingToronto asked you to nominate the best bike lanes in Toronto. As a bold pilot project to install separated bike lanes along University Avenue sparks the ire of mayoral candidates, excites downtown bicycle commuters and grabs the headlines, we don't want our other bike lanes to feel left out. You've heard our call and the nominations keep rolling in daily. Each pointing to many of the fantastic reasons why bike lanes are important and cannot be pushed aside. As … [Read more...]

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Updates to the Maps Page

March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I just updated the Maps Page, so I thought I'd do a quick blog post to let everyone know. Here's what is new: 1) I updated the Bikelanes Map to make it as current as possible. If you know of a bikelane that seems to be missing from the map, please let me know in the comments below 2) I added a link to Michael Holloway's excellent and popular Toronto/GTA Bicycle Route Mapping Wiki blog - which compiles user-submitted cycling routes around Toronto 3) I added a "RideTheCity" page with an … [Read more...]

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Updates to the Toronto BikeShop Map

January 17, 2010 By 10 Comments

Just a quick post to let you know I just updated the Toronto BikeShop Map. I made the BikeShop Map 4 years ago because whenever I was in a part of the city I wasn't very familiar with, I never knew if I was near a bikeshop. It's easy enough to google "Toronto Bikeshops" and see what pops up... but a comprehensive online map did not exist. To my knowledge, it is still the only map with plots this info, for you, the Toronto cyclist. :) Here are the updates I just made: The Bike … [Read more...]

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How Many of Your Neighbours Bike to Work? Perhaps More Than You Think!

January 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Patrick Cain at the Toronto Star loves maps (who doesn't?). He's done a couple general commuting maps for the GTA, but has just released one just about Commuter Cyclists, organized by Census Tracts. The map looks pretty much like you'd expect... higher levels of people using bicycles as their primary mode of getting to work in the downtown core (where car traffic moves slower and there are more bikelanes) and less and less as you move into the old boroughs of Toronto and the … [Read more...]

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Toronto BikeShop Map

February 1, 2008 By 3 Comments

Two years ago I made the first Toronto Bikeshop Map, and I've just updated it to be bigger, better, and more useful than the first! View Larger MapA large version of it is on it's own page on BikingToronto.If you see any mistakes, or know of a shop I missed, please let me know in the comments. I'll be expanding the map out to the GTA soon too!Toronto Bikeshop Map. … [Read more...]

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