If you bike, conservative or not, John Tory does not want your vote
John Tory on the pilot project bike lanes for Adelaide and Richmond:
Ontario Liberals promised bike infrastructure fund a drop in bucket
The Ontario Liberals promised $25 million towards cycling infrastructure this year. While this is certainly better than zero dollars and while cycling organizations such as Share the Road did good to get excited about it, I'm going to look at the gift horse in the mouth. I'm here to provide the horse droppings on the parade (or some such metaphor).
Winter gives cyclists the middle finger. Show it who is boss
After a few milder winters, this winter has been particularly tough. A hardy few bike throughout the winter but even they have limits. As I write this the snow is thickly falling and only a few brave souls can be seen biking or walking.
The cold is actually manageable; bundle up and you'll do well. But the thick snow turning into ice on the sidewalks and roads makes it dangerous. This winter has been especially tricky with a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle that has turned much snow into hidden ice. Avoiding this ice buildup, I believe, is possible. If only the City cared enough.
Toronto protected bike lane strategy: study, discuss, repeat. Meanwhile Ottawa just builds them
Ottawa actually builds protected bike lanes. In Toronto we like to think and talk about it a lot.
Avid cyclists as policy makers are going extinct and they've no one else to blame
At the recent Toronto Bike Awards, Dr. Monica Campbell won the TCAT Active Transportation Champion of the Year. Monica worked in Toronto Public Health to put a "health lens" on transportation planning. Monica is a leader in cycling issues but she is *not* an "avid cyclist". She only started cycling after BIXI Toronto launched.
The history and circumstances of bike facilities in Toronto and Montreal: TCAT video
Sherbourne cycle tracks completed, go try them
The first cycle track in Toronto is now complete! After all the politics and foot-dragging, Toronto is now in the club with the likes of New York City, Chicago, Montreal and Vancouver.
Building on the good work already done: cycling policy in Ontario
The province of Ontario has finally acknowledged that we could use some cycling love. However, the current proposal put forth by the Minister of Transportation is slim and vague.
Toronto unique in having an urban vision of "destinations" and narrow roads that marginalizes cycling
Toronto is "unique", not just for its "war on the car" mayor (who may be losing his job this morning), but also because it seems to be obsessed with it's own version of "complete streets" and creating "destinations" that seems to have excluded cycling from a number of important routes, including John Street, Bloor Street (at Yorkville
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