Bike Lanes on Yonge Street!

posted by Joe on 4/04/2007 | 4 Comments |

I bet the title of this post got you all excited, eh? Especially after I posted about the possibility of Yonge Street losing a lane (and gaining sidewalk) a couple weeks ago...

It looks like Yonge Street may be getting bikelanes, but it's only from Front to Queens Quay.

Sure, it would be nice to have bikelanes all the way from the waterfront right up to Steeles (or farther!), but this is a good start. It's an important "connector" between downtown and the waterfront, providing cyclists with a slightly safer way of getting to the Waterfront and the Martin-Goodman Trail.

More importantly, no part of Yonge Street is on the plans for the Bikeway Network... so cycling advocates here in our fair city are hoping that this may be a precedent for a nice continuous east-west bikelane along Bloor and the Danforth!

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Exactly the right place for a bike lane, too. If you only put bike lanes in a few places, put them under the railway underpasses; the restricted visibility, noise, and general crowding make them pretty grim places to bike at the best of times. Lack of a bike lane can make them genuinely terrifying.

By John Spragge, at 8:53 PM

On an unrelated note, I ran into this article.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2332714,00.html

Okay, so it's more of a PR piece, but it looks like somewhere I'd like to vacation.

By DJW, at 10:00 PM

It's logical to favour bikes and restrict cars a bit beside a subway huh?

By hamish wilson, at 11:31 AM

I'd like to see adequate bike lane coverage across the entire city. However, it makes sense to start building bike lanes in the places where cyclists most need them, so as to encourage cycling. In my judgment, that means starting by putting bike lanes in places such as underpasses. I do not, by any means, suggest we stop there.

By John Spragge, at 12:54 PM