Weekly News Wrap-Up: Money for Cycling Groups, Bike Lockers at Keele Subway, The Bloor Bike Brawl, and More<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.blogger.com/static/v1/common/js/327583163-csitaillib.js"></script> <script>if (typeof(window.attachCsiOnload) != 'undefined' && window.attachCsiOnload != null) { window.attachCsiOnload('ext_blogspot'); }</script> <data:blog.pageTitle/>

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It's Friday again everyone. Happy Friday to you!

Here's the weekly wrap-up of the News that has been on the site this week. Don't forget that you can follow these Weekly News Wrap-Ups through the RSS feed, or subscribe to get it in your email every week!

  • Toronto Community Foundation Gives Money to Toronto Cycling Groups
    Great news from the Toronto Community Foundation. They've received $231,922 from a class action lawsuit and will be distributing it to transportation related groups in Toronto: Toronto Community Foundation is distributing $231,922 to local initiatives as part of the latest settlement in a longstanding class action lawsuit involving price fixing…
  • Eye Weekly Writes Coherently about Bike Lanes
    A very good opinion piece by Jonathan Goldsbie is in this week's issue of Eye Weekly. It starts out like any other pro-cycling and anti-automobile rant about the slow implementation of Toronto's Bike Plan (these rants ignore the fact that politicians have to balance the needs and wants of…
  • Bike Lockers being considered for Keele Subway Station
    Great news from InsideToronto: "There is clearly a demand here," [City Councillor] Gord Perks said, looking around a less-than-full parking lot at the Keele Street subway station.Although cars were not in abundance, bikes were a different story. They filled the bike racks in front of the station and were locked…
  • Eye Weekly writes about the "Bloor Bike Brawl"
    This week, Eye Weekly has a pretty good synopsis of the whole Yorkville Bloor Street Reconstruction issue: The transformation has been hailed as a pedestrian-friendly revitalization that will encourage shoppers to spend far more time salivating in and around the big-ticket boutiques of the Bloor-Yorkville neighbourhood. And there’s no…

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