Annette Bike Lane Public Meeting Sept. 15

Dear concerned cyclist,

The Annette Street bike lane needs your help. A full kilometre of the bike lane risks not being approved. Our councillor and City staff need to hear from people what want the full bike lane - including the disputed section between Jane and Windermere. The full bike lane will offer cyclists more safety on this busy street. If you bike on Annette Street or would like to start biking on this street if it was safer, now is the time to have your say. Please attend the public meeting on this issue to show your support for the full bike lane on Annette Street and to let City staff and the councillor know your views.

The strength in numbers of a strong, vocal community of bike lane supporters will ensure the health, safety, and environmental sustainability of our neighborhoods.
The status quo of a fragmented network has to end.

City staff will be present at the public meeting to answer your questions and concerns, as well as Councillor Saundercook. The Councillor's invitation is below:

In June 2008 City Council approved bike lanes for the section of Annette Street between Runnymede Road and Dundas Street West. As your Councillor I would like to discuss the section between Runnymede Road and Jane St. with you the community.

The public meeting will include a presentation on alternatives for providing bike facilities west of Runnymede Road to Jane Street. Comments and questions may be submitted directly to staff and will be reviewed and considered.

The public meeting is scheduled for:

Monday September 15th, 2008
James Culnan Catholic School
605 Willard Avenue
7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

How to stay involved:
If you are unable to attend the public meeting, but would like to provide us with your comments, please contact:
David Dunn
E-Mail: bikeplan@toronto.ca
Pedestrian and Cycling Infrastructure
Fax: 416.392.4808

City of Toronto
22nd Floor, City Hall
100 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 2N2

Councillor Bill Saundercook
416.392.4072
councillor_saundercook@toronto.ca

Tags:

bike safety

bike lanes

politics

advocacy

Comments

tino

Pathetic

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 08:51

I went last night. It was abundantly clear that the main thing standing in our way is the
city of Toronto's policy of maintaining the monopoly of the automobile. All options presented were in keeping with this. It was laughable hearing them defend the notion that car reduction is a negative thing.

Lela Gary

Proposal for Legislation

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 12:25

In response to Pathetic and all the politically induced ills on cycling, the following link
is the answer:

http://www.ecopolitics.ca/transport/cyc/proposal_legislation.php

The Secretariat responded rather positively:
"Thank you for sharing your proposal with me. It is an extremely
interesting plan and is quite consistent with the green agenda".

Let's hope that cycling will be treated by the powers to be as it ;is classified: a vehicle,
and as such a legitimate component of traffic with the respect and the resources to
be in par with the ever gigantic car traffic.

Cheers to all.

jamesmallon (not verified)

The Province!

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 15:49

You are exactly right, in our idiotic system where the cities are the creatures of the province, the way to get bike lanes and other cycling infrastructure is to make it provincial law! Obvious, but I've never heard it before. God knows the city's shown it has no interest in us cyclists outside of a camera frame (photo-op).

Martin Reis (not verified)

Good to see so many people there

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 13:54

There were about 100 people there with a huge contingent of cyclists ... ride on, right on!

locutas_of_spragge

Report with maps

Wed, 09/17/2008 - 03:05

up at Open Hand/Open Eye

John G. Spragge
Mariner, cyclist, pilot

vic

Annette - City's notes

Thu, 09/18/2008 - 15:55

Just got this email from the City's bike staff. There' still time to submit your own comments, and you can view the notes from Monday's presentation by following that link...

Hello,

We would like to thank everyone for sharing their thoughts regarding the proposed bike lanes on Annette Street between Runnymede and Jane, and the alternatives being considered. Many of you attended the public meeting held on Monday the 15th at James Culnan Catholic School; others have provided us with comments via mail and email.

All of the comments we receive on this issue are a valuable contribution to the decision-making process and we want to thank you for your time and input on this matter. If you have not sent in your comments yet, please send them to us by Monday, September 22nd. City Transportation staff need to integrate the comments received into a report that will be presented to City Council's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee (PWIC). The PWIC will vote on how to proceed with this portion of Annette at their next meeting on October 10th, so there is limited time for staff to prepare the material that will help Council members arrive at their final decision.

In the meantime, we have posted a copy of the presentation made by staff at Monday's meeting on the Cycling website here:

http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/public-consultations/annette-street-091508...

If you have any problems viewing the presentation please let us know.

If you still want to provide us with comments regarding this issue you can:

- reply to this email address (bikeplan@toronto.ca);

- fax us at 416-392-2974; or

- mail your comments to:
Public Consultation Unit - Annette Bike Lanes
City of Toronto
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, 19th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C6

Thank you again for participating in this process.