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From the Toronto Star, Sun Nov 16, 2008
BIKE LANES
THE PLAN
To build 1,000 kilometres of bikeways, including 495 km of bike lanes, by 2012, delayed from the original 2011 target.
ADVOCATES
City staff pulled a surprise move at the PWIC meeting. In an appended agenda ("New Business") they snuck in 16.1km of bike lanes to be approved on Lawrence Avenue East in Scarborough. Our mole in the city failed to warn us of this development. This was made even more interesting by the fact that this was done using the new approval process.
In New Zealand the Minister of Safety is in hot water for musing about the mandatory helmet law discouraging people from cycling. As we know that more cyclists makes cycling safer and more comfortable (the so-called safety in numbers principle), it is fair for him to muse, but there is little chance of the current law being changed.
I am thankful that we don't have mandatory helmet legislation here.
Driving School
Art by Fauxreel & Specter @ 39 Lisgar
An update on the Bloor Street court challenge from lawyer Albert Koehl, on behalf of the Safe Cycling Coalition
A loss in the courts – but nonetheless a step forward for cyclists
Annette October 2008
Council voted last night to install the bike lanes on Annette Street from Jane to Runnymead.
Over 200 people wrote letters, and it appears to have been a key part of the success.
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