How to Suppress Cycling in Toronto: A Simple Plan
Let’s say you were a member of the Ford team, and you were tasked with suppressing cycling and rolling back existing cycling infrastructure. How best to accomplish this?
Try this:
Jarvis Bike Lanes: Don't Uncork The Champagne
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news – and in fact, I’m not; NOW Magazine scooped me on this by hours – but if you think we won a one-year reprieve on Jarvis demolition and a straight swap for separated bike lanes on Sherbourne, better think again.
A disappointing bikeway network report and things we can do to improve it.
The Bikeway Network Report for 2011 came out yesterday. Overall it's a big letdown, though I'm happy to see that Sherbourne, Bloor Viaduct and Wellesley are proposed to get protected bike lanes.
Bike union takes mayoral candidates on ride
ThinkBike results: Orange team wins with Sherbourne re-design proposal
The Orange team won the ThinkBike with their excellent ideas for improving Sherbourne street and its bike lanes from the lake up to Bloor.
Beyond the rhetoric: Sarah Thomson presents realistic bike plan
Allow bikes on the road and even make it safer and easier for them on the road? As one of the main frontrunners for the mayor's seat, Sarah Thomson had first bucked the trend of playing it safe by proposing road tolls to pay for public transit, and now she's come out with a real bike plan, cheekily called "Bike City". This is a breath of fresh air.
From where cycling is as normal to giving us a helping hand
No, Holland is no land of unicorns and candy cane trees, despite being below sea level, and filled with tulips, bicycles, and people who don't stop cycling for any kind of weather (except maybe if the polders fill up with water). This is why their expertise is particularly useful as an export, as the following videos demonstrate well.
Then (1950s):
Toronto to consider bike-specific traffic signals and bike boxes
Toronto transportation staff has been planning new bike-specific traffic control signals to go along the 30 km of new trails in our suburbs, and for downtown is planning bike boxes at five locations downtown on College, Bloor and Harbord.
Parking Exemptions vs Bike Lanes
After Councillor Howard Moscoe's prodding, City Council has released the previously confidential manual which explains who can get their parking tickets cancelled. I am glad that they did this, and it helps make things much more clear to everyone in this city. Many thanks to Councillor Moscoe, and the other councillors, who made this happen.
Before this manual was released, I had though that more enforcement would help to diminish the number of vehicles found parked in bike lanes. I had also thought that on-street separated bike lanes should be used sparingly and strategically.
Smitherman's so-called transportation plan: joining Rocco in kicking cyclists off major streets
George Smitherman, mayoral candidate, has published a "transportation plan", or, as I prefer to call it, a thinly veiled nod to motorists and patronizing approach to transit, cycling and walking. It may be easier in an era of a "war on cyclists" that a mayoral candidate can get away with a platform that does less for cyclists than what is in the Bike Plan already.
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