Councillor A.A. Heaps, the new chair of the Toronto Cycling Committee announced today that the City will be doubling the number of bike lockers around the city over the next four years.
Many of the new locker locations will be at transit stops.
"We want it to be similar to the Kiss-n-Ride program, only this is Bike-and-Ride. We want people to know that bikes are not the poor brother of the City and are in fact a major part of our environmental plan, and a major part of our transportation network."
The most immediate new installations will be at Rouge Hill GO station and Cedarvale Park near the west entrance of St. Clair subway station. There will be six new lockers at each location.
The City will be installing more than 90 new bike lockers across the city in 2007.
Currently, the City has 82 lockers in use, with about 54 people on a waitlist.
Lockers are available for $10 plus GST per month, for a minimum four-month duration and each locker has a unique key.
Since July 2006, the City has installed lockers at nine locations:
•City Hall (Elizabeth street)
•Exhibition Place
•371 Bloor West (at Spadina)
•Downsview subway
•Finch subway
•Toronto Island Ferry Terminal
•Metro Hall (King street)
•St. Lawrence Market
•OISE (252 Bloor Street)
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Comments
Darren Stehr (not verified)
Math
Thu, 05/31/2007 - 20:02Wow! 172 bike lockers. How many thousands of post and rings were lost last year because of an inherent weakness. Maybe we should all schedule our trips accordingly so we can share those 172 lockers until the City gets back to reinforcing the post and rings.
Steeker
I feel sooooooooo bad about
Thu, 05/31/2007 - 23:17I feel sooooooooo bad about today ,, I was heading to work and came around the corner on my recumbent and mett that guy and he was so happy to see me and said I am just in time for the locker stint but I said dude I am just heading over to work and can't stay for it ,,,, =8^) (Steeker)