College Street Bike lanes

They're being repainted over the next few weeks, with the inclusion of bike boxes.

Bike boxes on College?
Others may disagree, but I don't think bike boxes are needed in most places if we all stay in line and don't use them.
Where they really make sense is where there's a narrowing of the road on the opposite side, or where there's a clear existing demand for left turnings
And while it's nice to get lines repainted in August, which is better than September, maybe the portions of COllege between Bay and Spadina are far more deserving of having separations than the Viaduct, and the lanes might be wide enough too.

found this Thursday afternoon showing the missing lines.

http://photoproof.blogspot.com/?zx=bdcaf1e5c5931173

Those didn't take long to come back. Whew.

Re: bike boxes, I think they are a great idea, particularly on College. We need more of them and we need all road users to understand how they work. Two main reasons: one, the most common car-bike collision is the "right hook", ie, a car turning right and hitting a cyclist, almost always because the driver doesn't look (or signal). Bikes that pull into the bike box are highly visible, and bikes in front of cars are almost never hit unless it's at night without bike lights. The other reason is that on routes with heavy cyclist traffic, you need to give time or space for cyclists to clear the intersection and sort themselves out - unlike cars we don't all travel at the same speed. Bike boxes allow everyone to clear the intersection and settle back into the bike lane without worrying about squeezing between traffic. This happens anyway on College during rush hours, but it's very ad hoc with lots of narrow passing. The other way to address this issue is with time: Copenhagen has advanced bike green signals of 10-20 seconds to let bikes clear the intersection before cars, but it's going to be a while (and take a lot of political and financial capital) before we see that here.

I've cycled in a city which has bike boxes at every intersection where there is a bike lane: Auckland, New Zealand. And all drivers respected them. Impressive because Auckland has a lot of sprawl, hills, and a high car modal share.