Posts Tagged ‘biking’
[URBAN NOTE} Five Toronto links: Honest Ed’s, 411 Church, cormorants, Scarborough cycling, swimming
- Urban Toronto looks at Honest Ed’s one year ago and at the site now.
- Urban Toronto looks at how the exterior of 411 Church, at Church and Carlton, is fast approaching completion.
- A highly contagious disease called Newcastle disease is killing cormorants along the Toronto waterfront. CBC reports.
- Tammy Thorne at NOW Toronto looks at the factors behind the spread of cycling in Scarborough, here.
- Jamie Bradburn shares some old articles offering advice to the Water Nymphs women’s swimming club of the 1920s.
[URBAN NOTE] Three Toronto links: TTC streetcars, Queens Quay, Cheesecake Factory
- Steve Munro shares some photos of the first of the Canadian Light Rail Vehicles, TTC streetcars, from 1978.
- NOW Toronto points out that Queens Quay, a popular pedestrian and biking area, does not do that good job of separating these two streams of traffic.
- This Toronto Star review of the Cheesecake Factory, newly present in Toronto at Yorkdale, was fun to read. A dessert there might be worth trying.
[URBAN NOTE] Six links on Toronto, on mass transit and infrastructure generally
- This story of a TTC worker who took a day’s fares home with him, where they got confiscated by police, and then compensated by union pressure for having been suspended without pay … wow.
- Edward Keenan makes the point that cost overruns for city infrastructure need to be taken seriously. The quoted price for a park staircase is just off.
- Daily Xtra notes the sad state of repairs of the rainbow crosswalks of Toronto.
- CBC reports on Twyn Rivers Drive, a Scarborough route some say should be marked as off-limits for heavy vehicles.
- NOW Toronto reports on how Mississauga is starting to outshine Toronto in the department of bike lanes.
- Torontoist’s Tricia Wood writes about the almost impressive dysfunction at Metrolinx.
[URBAN NOTE] Three articles on cycling bike lanes in Toronto
- NOW Toronto‘s Tammy Thorne looks at the reasons given for the lack of bike lanes on the Entertainment District’s John Street.
- The Toronto Star‘s Ben Spurr reports on the success of bike lanes on Bloor Street.
- The Star carries Liam Lacey’s Canadian Press article on Gregory Becarich, maker of ghost bike memorials in Toronto.
[URBAN NOTE] “Majority of Torontonians favour bike lanes, new survey suggests”
The Toronto Star‘s Alina Bykova reports on an encouraging new poll of Torontonian opinion.
Seven in 10 Torontonians support bike lanes generally and a majority approve of the new lanes on Bloor St. W., according to a new Forum Research poll revealed this week.
The survey showed widespread support for bike lanes from multiple demographics that were surveyed, including people who drive, take public transit, bike and walk to work or school, those in different income and age brackets, and men and women alike.
Downtown Toronto and East York, where most bike lanes are located, had the highest approval rates, at 79 per cent in each region. North York’s approval rating was the lowest of all the regions surveyed, at 61 per cent.
“These lanes have obviously been something of a success, and even the majority of drivers favour them. This bodes well for more bicycle infrastructure if as ambitious a project as this can meet with so little opposition,” said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff.
Fifty-six per cent of those polled approved of the new bike lanes on Bloor between Shaw St. and Avenue Rd., a pilot project installed in August. The approval rating was slightly higher in the case of those surveyed in downtown Toronto, who were 63 per cent in favour of the bike lanes, and in East York, where 72 per cent were supportive.