bike lanes

Bike Lanes
Illustration by Amics de la Bici (Spain), with my translation.

According to the Toronto Star, the City may create some new temporary bike lanes in the event of a TTC strike:

For cyclists, the curb lane on Bay St. from Queen's Quay to Yorkville will become a bike-only lane for the duration of a strike. So will the curb lanes on Queen's Quay from Lower Spadina Ave. to Yonge St., and Dundas St. E. from River St. to Broadview Ave.

This came in from my good freind Marty, I though that I should pass it along...

As you may know, Jarvis Street is being re-designed from Bloor to Queen (see http://www.toronto.ca/involved/projects/jarvis/). Incredibly, the city is not considering bike lanes on this very wide and fast road (currently 5 car lanes) because:
1) there already are lanes on Sherbourne
2) there isn't enough space for bike lanes, and
3) bike lanes aren't a part of their beautification objective.

When: Wednesday March 5, 6:30pm

Where: Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor St. W.

Why: Because the developments and changes at this intersection could have a big impact on the West End for cyclists!

Bloor Viaduct Feb. 25, 2008
Hamish took this photo on Feb 25, 2008. The same day I went to College street and the situation had not been fixed either for much of College street. Same on Harbord as Wes pointed out to me in an email that morning.

Day Four after the snow storm and the bike lanes are still mostly unrideable. Whatever the snow isn't blocking is blocked by a car that is forced away from the curb by banks of snow. Tino has his entire snow in the bike lane on flickr set to document our frustration!

Snowy Bike Lane - Harbord and Spadina looking east

Monday morning update: TPS now has a press release online, in PDF format.

This email arrived on Friday January 25th via the Toronto Police Service 14th Division mailing list:

Bike Tunnel NorwayCan you say Velo-city?