Does the following Bloor Street plan for the Annex neighbourhood contradict the Sustainability Report Recommendations which were adopted by council?
Final meeting held for first phase of Bloor visioning study
Cyclists attended the meetings with bicycle bells, protesting the lack of bicycle lanes in the plan.
"How do you reconcile your principle of sustainability with the accommodation of cars," said Richard Gilbert, noting how inefficient a mode of transportation cars are.
City staff present explained that the plan doesn't necessarily exclude the possibility of bike lanes. They stressed that lanes need to be part of a network, and creating them piecemeal across the city won't offer tangible solutions either.
It appears the city staff who attended this meeting plan to implement the entire, complete network all at once. On which night will this happen?
Fortunately, unofficial word from city hall has been in favour of "piecemeal" implementation of the bike network, since the previous attempts to implement from the core outwards have failed so miserably. If this is the new strategy (and other readers here probably know much more than me), it would mean that a bike lane on this section of Bloor would be the first of many pieces of a complete network.
