Comments on: Things You Can Do By Bike – Go To IKEA!

By: xander

xander — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:55:50 +0000

did you stop at Toms Dairy Freeze? thats my icecream hangout… the burgers are pretty good too. it’s disapointing where the bike lanes ends on the queensway, as it is one of my east west corridors, there are bike lanes on stephen drive and royal york, however not much east west in that area. evans ave would be a nice bike lane from royal york to Sherway Gardens.. it goes right by Ikea.

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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:59:04 +0000

[...] we have to pick up large items from Ikea or Home Depot (small items can be done by bike of course, like Duncan knows), we get a Zipcar for a couple of hours… specifically a Toyota Matrix, as it uses very little [...]

By: duncan

duncan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:18:12 +0000

Thanks, Anthony. Looking at Google maps, the key to making the connection from Evans Ave (south of the Gardiner) up to IKEA, appears to be Wickman Road. I had assumed the only ways to cross the Gardiner in the area would be by using busy arterials like Islington.

Locals know better, thanks for this.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:19:23 +0000

Locals know to use the back entrance to Ikea. You can get it from Evans Avenue and avoid The Queensway.
Evans is a quieter road than The Queensway, it’s only four lanes wide, and much less travelled. Evans is less hair-raising for most, especially west of Royal York where speeds increase to 60km/h on The Queensway.

From Evans, take Royal Road to just south of the rail line and then travel through some of the quiet side streets through Mimico and then connect up the Martin-Goodman trail. There are even bike lanes on Lake Shore Blvd W that help get you to the Martin-Goodman trail.

And soon Phase II of the Mimico Linear Park will start construction. Upon completion it would allow one to completely by-pass Lake Shore Blvd W, should one desire.

By: Joe T.

Joe T. — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:31:00 +0000

I like the look of those Queensway Bikelanes… with that striped buffer zone!

By: Joe T.

Joe T. — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:30:16 +0000

Gotta agree with Huy.

If you’re buying something HUGE that you need to rent a car for, and you have to go on the weekend… time it to get there right when it opens in the morning. It’s about the only sane time to go on the weekend.

By: Huy

Huy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:27:00 +0000

Parking lot at Ikea is a nightmare on weekends . Bike is the way to go!