Comments on: Learning to Travel Like a Cyclist in Toronto http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/ A BikingToronto Blog Sun, 20 May 2012 12:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nodders http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-1223 nodders Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:46:10 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/#comment-1223 Just found this blog and instantly recognized the location of the photo as being exactly where I start my ride into TO every morning. In fact, I come out from our building on to lakeshore right where the little blue car is. In the spirit of the blog, most cyclists continue along Lakeshore to Marine Parade Drive where they hook up with the waterfront trail. Instead, try turning right just east of where the pic is taken and hook up with the paved trail that takes you across the creek. Follow the trail south of Marine Parade Drive past the water management ponds and then you end up on the waterfront trail. Very scenic and it only adds an extra 20 metres to your trip! Just found this blog and instantly recognized the location of the photo as being exactly where I start my ride into TO every morning. In fact, I come out from our building on to lakeshore right where the little blue car is. In the spirit of the blog, most cyclists continue along Lakeshore to Marine Parade Drive where they hook up with the waterfront trail. Instead, try turning right just east of where the pic is taken and hook up with the paved trail that takes you across the creek. Follow the trail south of Marine Parade Drive past the water management ponds and then you end up on the waterfront trail. Very scenic and it only adds an extra 20 metres to your trip!

]]> By: michael holloway http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-174 michael holloway Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:03:38 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/#comment-174 Uh ha! I went to 'lake effects' photo stream and read that it's Lake Shore Blvd and Park Lawn. Claire at Fletcher Five Blog indicated the other day that she was thinking of Lake Shore from Royal York to Humber Bay Park - I quickly mapped her an alternative route. :) Uh ha! I went to ‘lake effects’ photo stream and read that it’s Lake Shore Blvd and Park Lawn.

Claire at Fletcher Five Blog indicated the other day that she was thinking of Lake Shore from Royal York to Humber Bay Park – I quickly mapped her an alternative route. :)

]]> By: michael holloway http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-173 michael holloway Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:41:31 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/#comment-173 Hi Duncan, Dawn, I know that Bedford route well, it's a beauty. Is the pic Queen's Quay and Bathurst? Dawn, thank you very much for making a map and posting it in the Twitter list! I saw your comment above and found your map through the Sport Distance Calculator's RSS feed. Tonight I made an alternative route map for your commute to work and published it in the Toronto/GTA Bicycle Route Mapping Wiki Blog: http://bikingtoronto.com/bicycleroutemappingwiki/2010/03/21/toronto-greenwood-and-dundas-st-east-to-king-st-west-and-spadina/ This route avoids King Street which I know is BUSY and dangerous (imho) from Jarvis all the way over to Spadina On the lost post to the Twitter list (#BikeRouteWiki), I checked for your tweet but it is not showing up: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BikeRouteWiki. Sometimes Twitter is slow in posting new list additions. The only other thing I can think of that might have miss-directed it: - The list tag you posted is spelt differently than mine. - The # tag isn't 'live'. Look in your Tweet history - if you feel like it - and check to see if the link turns colour when you hover over it with your cursor. I'm wondering why it didn't show up in the list. I'd like to fix any problems if there are any. Also, I'm going to publish Your Map at the Toronto/GTA Bicycle Route Mapping Wiki Blog soon. Also anyone who wants to make a map but doesn't use Twitter, just post the URL in my Biking Toronto Blog (http://bikingtoronto.com/michaelhollowayblog/) and I'll take it from there. :) Michael Hi Duncan, Dawn,

I know that Bedford route well, it’s a beauty. Is the pic Queen’s Quay and Bathurst?

Dawn, thank you very much for making a map and posting it in the Twitter list! I saw your comment above and found your map through the Sport Distance Calculator’s RSS feed. Tonight I made an alternative route map for your commute to work and published it in the Toronto/GTA Bicycle Route Mapping Wiki Blog:

http://bikingtoronto.com/bicycleroutemappingwiki/2010/03/21/toronto-greenwood-and-dundas-st-east-to-king-st-west-and-spadina/

This route avoids King Street which I know is BUSY and dangerous (imho) from Jarvis all the way over to Spadina

On the lost post to the Twitter list (#BikeRouteWiki), I checked for your tweet but it is not showing up: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BikeRouteWiki. Sometimes Twitter is slow in posting new list additions.

The only other thing I can think of that might have miss-directed it:
- The list tag you posted is spelt differently than mine.
- The # tag isn’t ‘live’.

Look in your Tweet history – if you feel like it – and check to see if the link turns colour when you hover over it with your cursor.

I’m wondering why it didn’t show up in the list. I’d like to fix any problems if there are any.

Also, I’m going to publish Your Map at the Toronto/GTA Bicycle Route Mapping Wiki Blog soon.

Also anyone who wants to make a map but doesn’t use Twitter, just post the URL in my Biking Toronto Blog (http://bikingtoronto.com/michaelhollowayblog/) and I’ll take it from there. :)

Michael

]]> By: duncan http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-172 duncan Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:02:05 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/#comment-172 Hello Dawn, I can't seem to find your post on #BikeRouteWiki. Feel free to share in this comment section where you're traveling to and from and I'll see if I can help. If not, someone else on BikingToronto will step up for sure! It took me getting stuck in a really hard downpour to finally start biking in weather that wasn't nice and sunny. And same here, I don't miss my "always breaking down and costing me too much money and stress" car either! Hello Dawn, I can’t seem to find your post on #BikeRouteWiki. Feel free to share in this comment section where you’re traveling to and from and I’ll see if I can help. If not, someone else on BikingToronto will step up for sure!

It took me getting stuck in a really hard downpour to finally start biking in weather that wasn’t nice and sunny.

And same here, I don’t miss my “always breaking down and costing me too much money and stress” car either!

]]> By: Dawn http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Dawn Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:42:59 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/duncan/learning-to-travel-like-a-cyclist-in-toronto/#comment-171 I too have been in Toronto for almost 5 years now, got rid of my car about 2 years ago and don't miss it either. I bike to work when the weather is nice (yes, I'm a wuss!). I have a route I go, but it's really busy and I know there must be a nicer way to get there. I posted on #BikeRouteWiki. If you have any suggestions for a better one, I'm all ears! I too have been in Toronto for almost 5 years now, got rid of my car about 2 years ago and don’t miss it either. I bike to work when the weather is nice (yes, I’m a wuss!). I have a route I go, but it’s really busy and I know there must be a nicer way to get there. I posted on #BikeRouteWiki. If you have any suggestions for a better one, I’m all ears!

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