34 thousand bike trips made daily into and out of downtown: city study

I really think this would be more relevant information if they did it every month over at least a year and then did an average daily number. To quote a number in Sept isn't really indicative of overall bike traffic. It doesn't consider that in the summer months there may be a slump (students are out of school) and that most people don't cycle through the winter.

To speak further to the student aspect, there could be a good number who thought "Hey, I'm going to ride my bike this year!" and then maybe didn't like it, or just will get in the habit of other methods of transport over the winter months and won't pick it back up.

This is an interesting study, but it needs to be broader to give a true picture of cyclists in the city!

Interesting, what is with the net difference on the west-end.... Maybe Rob Ford is collecting cyclists with the intent to consume them? Eating 3,000 cyclists might cause anybody to gain weight... even if those cyclists are skinny little hipster kids! Perhaps a search party should be mounted.

This isn't the first study - there were similar counts three or four times before amanglemation for about the same boundaries. The paper is buried, and it's late, but the results of those earlier studies have shown similar things: there's a LOT of east-west traffic, it's concentrated on the big carterials and the west end especially, and beyond Bathurst, who knows where these cyclists come from.
And in the intervening 15 years the City has done minimal to zilch to make it that set of trips safer.
On busier Harbord, we can't even get the "progressive" Vaughan to put in full bike lanes, and the CU was happy with that, though what's been done is better than nothing.
Similarly, shouldn't we have seen some paint and changes to Arygle St. as part of the tepid West End Bikeways project by now c. 2 years later? and 1.5ish after approvals? And the majority of cyclists wanted something to happen on the main streets, not the circuitous side streets, but te CU and others are OK with the looping indirect milk run routes.
While the College rush hour sharrows are something, it all reminds me of a phrase "paths in our time"... or something like that.
Oh, the old surveys aren't online - fancy that. They exist on something called "paper".

I find it interesting that the BIXI map has it's boundaries pretty much along the same lines as this study: http://toronto.bixi.com//index.php/frontend/news/news_article/61

However, part of the logic that I've heard about the BIXI way of using a bicycle is that BIXI riders would stay within those boundaries, dropping their bike off at another BIXI location when they have gotten to their destination.

That means there is a significant amount of bike traffic within the core downtown area that would never cross those boundaries, and therefore never get counted in the survey.

Okay I give up, I can't figure out what CU stands for! Is it a city dept. related to cycling or a city manager of bikes or something?

James E I would bet a dollar that BIXI is more about new cyclists than existing ones. The system as you describe, picking up and dropping off a bike with no expectation of commute beyond the Bixi station boundaries, isn't much use to someone who brought there own bike to work.

Nevermind that existing cyclists probably make up most if not all Bixi subscribers, and doubtless will use them, as I see it BIXI is all about recruitment.

CU = cyclists union

aka TCU

oops okay I'm saying "Duh" cause that seems obvious now. Thx!

The bike lanes were not cleared once again this morning. I ride from Long Branch. Lakeshore Blvd. was cleared right to the very edge of the bike lane. I rode on Birmingham, also not cleared. Neither was Royal York when I passed it. I also rode very small sections of Strachan and Fort York Blvd bike paths. Not cleared.

We need to make complaints about this. I posted a letter from Councillor Grimes office to transportation in which he asked to have the lanes in his ward cleared. Yet it was not done this morning. We need to call 311 and register complaints. The crews are paid to clear all of the road. They are not doing so. They need to be held accountable.

Finally, we need to be ready when transportation tries to axe the clearing of the Martin Goodman Tail from their budget. It will save them $200,000. There are Councillors prepared to fight it. We need them to know we support them.