If I haven't mentioned it before (I have), or if you weren't listening (I'll forgive you), I'd like to take this moment to repeat how awesome BikePortland.org is.

Not only do I want Toronto to emulate Portland in all of it's great cycling activities, programs and community, but if I can make BikingToronto even half of what Jonathan Maus has done with BikePortland.org in only a year (!), then I will be ecstatic.

Only a week ago I posted about sharrows, and today BikePortland.org has posted a FAQ about sharrows written by the City of Portland even before the list has hit the official city website.

Most Portland streets carry low volumes of traffic with relatively slow speeds and special markings aren’t needed. We are placing sharrows only on streets where traffic is relatively heavy, speeds are a little higher, and the streets should be marked with bicycle lanes but cannot be because of demands for on-street parking or the number of travel lanes.

I thought I'd direct you over there as well, since having sharrows on every non-bikelaned street in Toronto (especially all those super-wide "arterials" out there in the former boroughs of Etobicoke, North York and Scarborough) would be awesome, and do a ton to promote cycling with just a bit of paint.

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