Is the city beginning to take the idea of a bike lane along Bloor-Danforth a bit more seriously? Perhaps. But it looks like we'll need to get a lot of people to phone the councillors on this list to convince them - even though a number of them are cycling friendly!
You can track the meeting here.
The City of Toronto Public Works and Infrastructure Committee will vote on Wednesday October 3 whether to adopt recommendations from a new report called Sustainable Transportation Initiatives – Short Term Proposals (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-7193.pdf)
that calls for a number of actions to promote public transit, cycling, and walking in Toronto (including working to implement an east-west bike corridor in the city by 2009 and studying the feasibility of a (long overdue) Bloor-Danforth bike lane.You can contact the committee administrator, Rosalind Dyers at pwic@toronto.ca or 416-392-8018 and ask to make a deputation at the meeting, which begins at 9:30 am in Committee room 1 at City Hall.
Please forward this widely!
(Info thanks to Michael Polanyi)
Comments
hamish (not verified)
please add two wheels worth of comment to the city
Sat, 09/29/2007 - 13:28thanks Herb for this plug with good detailed info. Some of us are a bit slow in getting the words/info up and out about this oppty.
Overall it is an opportunity, but I don't think there's been any report back to the Works Cttee from the motion Mr. Giambrone got passed two years ago on the TTTooker from Sherbourne to High Park, and for 4kms of that west of Spadina, the Dundas St. E template would make the repainting of the street a piece of cake, technically, if Caronto weren't so carrupt.
If people do send something in - please consider mentioning:
-the worth of Bloor/Danforth as a part of long, flat direct, safe network instead of forcing us off to admittedly more pleasant side streets but often not our destinations and not direct either like Bloor/D.
-is there a time frame on this study? What about actions including a smog day clean air corridor, another ignored component of the two-year ago motion that the Health Dept is hoping can be buried while whining about 1700 smog deaths and sticking out their hands for provincial and federal money - there's a searial killer on the loose! (though bikes are quick and quiet, and can be deadly too ok)
- while the study is occurring, will the Bloor Revitalization project borrow the $22M to rebuild 1km of Bloor between Church and Ave. Rd. without bike lanes, and then oops, can't do anything, so sorry, try Wellesley or the next century okay? If we're so broke, how does borrowing $22m or so contrast with the $25,000/km cost of painting a bike lane there.
-There's no other more logical space to squeeze cars a bit than beside the subway eh?
It's cheap paint.
-We're inactive with the climate carisis, except for huge megaprojects.
- and maybe you have your own experiences and near-misses and pet peeves. Please share.,
thanks