Spadina white line gone?

I've heard we're getting sharrows there in a few weeks. Those will be MUCH better than the half-assed lane which encouraged people to drive a foot or so from the curb, which is really unsafe.

Until the sharrows are there, do what I do: ride at least a meter from the curb/edge of parking, and take the lane completely if needed.

I've heard the same.. though I'd use slightly stronger language than "encourage" to describe that those whtie lines did to cyclists' road position (well maybe directly all they did was encourage, but once you tossed in motorist perceptions about what those white lines were supposed to mean...)

Just as a historical note, those white lines were originally painted as really inadequate bike lanes as a concession to ARC when Spadina was rebuilt. Then someone noticed that they were so far short of the TAC bikeway guidelines, that the city was bound to lose a massive lawsuit when (not if) someone riding in them got fatally doored, and the bike glyphs were removed. Now if only someone could apply the same sort of pressure to the folks who make our door zone bike lanes dangerously narrow by not pulling all the way in to their parking spots..

It's hard to retrofit a big eff-up - our well-paid politicians and planners couldn't find room on wide Spadina for proper bike lanes, though some of us tried waaay back when in the 1990s. So the white line was a feeble sop, and it didn't work all that well, though it was in places better than nothing. In other spots it was Bad.
I would have liked to have had a presentation of what was planned and had other public input in to designs, as at times the lines are useful, or were useful, and the sharrows less so. I don't think the changes will necessarily be a great improvement, given how the City sometimes misses some important details. One clear problem is northbound Spadina crossing over Queen St. - it's a pinch point ie. it's narrower on the north side of the street and cyclists and motor vehicles get squeezed together and it needs far better marking than a single effing sharrow north of the corner.

I thought the city took them out to be cleaned!

I knew exactly what's going on when I first saw them because I read about it here.

On another note, I was cycling along Harbord at about 6:30, and there were more cyclists on the street than cars. I've seen a lot of bicycle traffic on College, but that was a random moment with a lot of bicycles on the street, so many that they could have taken over the street. But they were considerate. There was even some rasta smoking the reefer while riding. He made some remarks that I didn't quite understand while riding.

yes because getting intoxicated while operating a vehicle is always considerate.

It presents a good image too!