Your Daily Toronto News:

The TTC wants to hear from you (Toronto Star)

The transit authority is asking riders to tell it how they would get to work if their bus service got cut or fares increased between 10 and 25 cents.

There’s a new kind of bike infrastructure in town (Spacing Wire and Eye Weekly)

For those as out of the loop as I am, sharrows are bike symbols painted on streets that are not quite wide enough for bike lanes. They remind drivers that cyclists are part of the road and indicate the part of the road where cyclists can most safely travel. (“Share” + “arrows” = “sharrows”). Sharrows are also a relatively new thing — Vancouver has them on some of its streets, but Toronto doesn’t have any to boast of yet. Check out this website from Portland for a better, more detailed explanation of what sharrows are, exactly.

GTTA gives us somewhere to put our bikes (I Bike TO)

Over the weekend, the GTTA (yes, that's a real link to their website) announced a short term plan to improve transit use in Toronto and the surrounding area. The main features of the plan are additional train coaches, increased track capacity and new buses (including double deckers, which will be good, if not a little strange, to see here).

On the cycling front, the plan includes bike lockers throughout the GTA and racks on buses. The press release indicates the racks will be on municipal buses.

GTTA Board gives green light to seven inter-regional transit projects (Canada News Wire)

- Bicycle promotion initiatives, including 1,000 new safe/secure bike storage spaces and expansion of bike/bus rack programs.

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