Toronto to consider bike-specific traffic signals and bike boxes

Once again, the thinking/planning is somewhat suspect.
All this is in Ward 20 - Mr. Vaughan's turf. Great - he does support some bike initiatives, but will this let him trumpet his Velozeal while ignoring some failure in the more pressing needs of filling in Harbord's gap, or the perennial uphill struggle of "where's Bloor"?
While there's no doubt that there's a lot of bike traffic on both Harbord and College, why not put in a dedicated lane on the block of College just beyond the lights on the south side? as there's almost always some car/truck parking there.
And with adjustments of lights along with the bike boxes, surely it's far more appropriate and needed to have a bike box on eastbound Hoskin to let the cyclists get to cross over to the other side of the road to make the connection to the Wellesley lane ahead of the cartillery. Isn't the City practising some entrapment here - marking the routes as bike lanes but failing to provide a safe connection?
Many of the bike boxes seem to have bike lanes concurrent with them. So with Harbord at Spadina, what about the eastbound travel since there's no bike lane there for four blocks.
The true need for east-west is filling in the missing four blocks of Harbord St., smoother road surfaces, and maybe a bit of bollard-aided bike lane on the College eastbound lane.
Otherwise, this smells a bit too much of greenwashing,and cheerleading anything that might do with bikes while avoiding really thinking about it.
I could be wrong on some of this as I've not been able to travel too much, and I can see where they would make a great difference, especially where there are pinch points on the other side of the road.
Wiithin Ward 20, the westbound bike travel of Harbord at Spadina maybe could use a bike box;.
There's the Hoskin eastbound to Wellesley too; also northbound Spadina at Queen, and the westbound Queen at Spadina, even though there's no bike lane on Queen.
One quick thought of another great spot for a bike box is westbound Bloor at Sherbourne where there is a significant shrinking of road widths, and the bike lane ends.
Another spot would be in Pantalonia at the end of Harbord, having a bike box for the left turning bikes would help us right?
And if one really looks at bike boxes - gosh, some places even have colour!! on their bike lanes - and that's beyond us it would seem - our asphalt is different from the rest of the world.....
We really need a network sub-committee, not cheerleaders, and not ward groups that are led from the Councillor's office, and less mywardopic visioning that goes beyond doing things to further enhance the local Councillors' creds. Mr. Vaughan did vote for bike lanes in the easy part of Bloor at High Park, (though the needs are in the narrow parts to the east) and has supported other bike lanes etc. But he's voted for the BST in Yorkvile, and I worry about what's next for Bloor between Ave. Rd. and Spadina, and I have difficulties trusting his interest and ability to make it bike-friendly.
So this seems more like opportunistic greenwashing expediency instead of really doing what needs to be done for cyclists - like filling in the four blocks of Harbord first. That takes political will and leadership - and we've only been waiting 15-odd years for it, and we'll likely have to wait for another four years before we can raise the topic as the trend is for actions and receptivity at the end of terms.
So the ice caps melt...

Thanks for the post and the links Herb - and it's item 35.76, c. 5/6 down, but the items are only the no right-turn on reds, and there are 10 locations actually...

We are long overdue for a bike box westbound at Queens Quay / Spadina. This is a terrible place for cyclists getting squeezed by cars proceeding through the green.

We also need bike signals at Lakeshore and Strachan - especially heading north. It's impossible to cross this intersection without breaking several laws (unless you dismount and walk your bike which is ridiculous)

I would also love to get a left turn path at College and Beverley (northbound), they could simply move the pedestrian crossing over a bit and create a legal lane for bikes to make a left without impeding traffic or pedestrians.

There are lots of others of course, but these ones really stand out for me.

I find that many motorists in Toronto drive right out over the crosswalk. Then they stare at you as you're forced to walk into the intersection just to cross. I worry that our bike boxes will be full of cars.

It runs right on a downtown street through the heart of the city!!