What’s most irksome about the Jarvis debacle is the reason behind it. Though we’ve heard a lot of stuff about the new dedicated bike lane (Toronto’s first) now under construction on Sherbourne, the real story is the city’s desire to placate the north-end residents of Moore Park and Rosedale who hated to lose Jarvis’s reversible [...]
We need the fifth lane of parking traffic to keep Toronto moving. To keep Toronto’s economy going and Toronto’s moms with their kids for longer times, rather than stuck in parking traffic. The desperate need for this fifth lane of parking traffic has made us internationally famous. Toronto is on the map, and it’s moving [...]
via Cycle Toronto: Derailed, a dance party fundraiser for Cycle Toronto! We’re thrilled to be hosting Derailed this year at Handlebar in Kensington Market. We’ll also have a silent auction with some fantastic gifts from our partners and supporters. Free entry for members. $5 cover for non-members. Join or renew at the door and we’ll [...]
“As a family and public health physician, I’m very concerned about the safety, the lack of public consultation and the misuse of taxpayer money,” Svoboda explained. “This is the only major North American city that is removing bicycle lanes. There’s going to be a net loss of one bicycle lane this year. And that’s a [...]
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 [...]
