A female cyclist and garbage truck collided Tuesday morning at a downtown intersection, leaving the woman with life-threatening injuries. The 38-year-old woman had been cycling westbound on Gerrard St. E., police said. The collision, shortly before 8:45 a.m., happened at Yonge St. around the time the westbound truck turned right, according to police. “Right now [...]
The city is set to embark on a pilot project to keep cyclists safe from a ever-present menace: streetcar tracks. A report going before the public works committee next week recommends testing safety measures at trouble spots where riders frequently get their wheels caught in the tracks. If approved, the pilot project will [...]
Very interesting post on Torontoist by Steve Fisher, the first person to sit down in front of the bikelane removal trucks on Monday: When I left the Jarvis Taskforce‘s emergency meeting this past weekend, I was fairly convinced that I wanted to protest the removal of the Jarvis Street bike lane in some way. It [...]
Protesters succeeded in delaying the removal of the Jarvis Street bike lanes by blocking stripe-removal vehicles with their bodies yesterday, but the latest word from the City is that the project is proceeding—though it hasn’t been without glitches. NOW Magazine reports that Tomislav Svoboda, a physician and cycling advocate, was arrested this morning near Jarvis [...]
The schedule for repainting the road will depend on weather conditions, according to a construction notice. The plan is to have the centre reversible lane for vehicles back in operation in early December. Once in place, the centre lane will move in a northbound direction between 3:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, and [...]
The family of Michael Rankin travelled to downtown Toronto on Saturday to see for themselves a memorial that has taken shape in memory of the bike courier. Rankin was fatally injured in a collision with a taxi on Wednesday afternoon, near Universtiy Avenue and Richmond Street West. He died a short time later in hospital. [...]
According to the report, City staff recommend developing a “streetcar track and cyclist” safety strategy. The goal of the strategy will be to actively collect data on streetcar track incidents, communicate safety tips and to ultimately launch a pilot project that will test various pavement markings to improve visibility for cyclists. Cycle Toronto proposed similar [...]
The strategy today saw a handful of protesters, about four in all, take turns sitting in the path of the oncoming scrub truck. As the truck skirted whoever was in front, the next protester took up a position up ahead—a sort of leap-frogging of the truck as it tried to advance down the street. (Among [...]
A protest by a 4-5 people that began north of Wellesley has halted the removal of the bike lanes on Jarvis. The city crew leap-frogged the protestors three times before calling off the removal south of Carlton. No arrests, though police were chatting with the protestors. The city has said they’ll resume removal tomorrow at [...]
Activists have asked that the lanes remain until new bike lanes can be implemented on nearby Sherbourne Street. Wayne Scott, from the Save Jarvis group, and Chris Drew, with the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood association, said they were concerned that taxpayers’ money was being wasted to remove the lanes. “This piece of paint may not look like [...]
Ford said Monday that pulling the bike lanes out was what people want. “Unfortunately, I wasn’t the one who voted to put them in, in the first place,” Ford said. During the 2010 election campaign, Ford said he heard from residents who use that road. “They want to get home to their families quicker and [...]
The crew was less than a block into the job when 33-year-old Steve Fisher plunked down cross-legged in the truck’s path just north of Wellesley St E. “I know you’re doing your job, but I’m not going to move,” said Fisher, a freelance arts and culture writer who said he was twice hit by [...]
Interesting piece on possible civil disobedience regarding the Jarvis bikelane removal. Following bike stuff, it’s easy to get ensconced in a “bike bubble” and the different viewpoints here help see the issue from different points of view: When city crews finally begin erasing the bike lanes and restoring the reversible centre lane on Monday, they [...]
Friends and colleagues of a bike courier who was killed after being struck by a cab earlier this week blocked rush hour traffic downtown on Friday, angry that the deceased man’s personal belongings were tossed into the trash by police. Mike Rankin, 56, was struck by a cab at University Avenue and Richmond Street West [...]
This is a loooong time coming. I remember the “trial” for this happening way back in 2006. Looking forward to this amazing new infrastructure! Queens Quay West between Bay Street and Spadina Avenue will become a one-way, westbound street starting on Monday, November 5 and ending at some point in spring 2013. That’s the bad [...]
