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@PolesWires

2 years

Design cycling infrastructure as if a 10 year old will use it.

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6 months

Many live by the principle leave better than you found it. In Toronto we live by the principle, leave asphalt, everywhere. The advantage of interlocking stones is that they are easy to replace. Why does Toronto accept this from the contractors???

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1 year

@the_transit_guy No line of sight and tinted windows. Why is this allowed?

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10 months

How, with such a wide sidewalk and plenty of sunshine is the city not able to plant trees that survive here? If this was done properly 34 years ago we would now have some majestic trees lining Bremner Blvd.

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8 months

Since these are for parked cars, maybe they should be placed in the space dedicated for it. Not impede pedestrians on already narrow sidewalks.

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4 months

Been looking for small dead trees and tree stumps in Montreal. Haven’t been able to find any. So the winters are NOT the reason we have so many trees die in Toronto.

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6 months

ZERO bikes were involved in this nightly car traffic jam on Spadina. Also tonight, 100 bikes passed me on my walk along Wellington from Bathurst to Spadina. That would have been 1 km of cars if they drove instead. Those clinging to cars, you’re welcome.

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5 months

Is it just me, or has this sidewalk attracted more pedestrians onto Wellington? I think it supports my view that beautiful infrastructure makes us feel good. A little mental health break on the way home from work.

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6 months

Love these asphalt planters. Toronto optimism at a start of a project replaced by resignation that maintenance is too much for this city.

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1 year

This and Kensington market would be pedestrian neighborhoods in any other city, but not in Toronto.

Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

1 year

Why ever reopen all the Yorkville streets to cars?

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1 year

Seriously, how is Avenue Rd north of Bloor still 6 lanes and then have what must be the skinniest and most obstructed side walks in Toronto? Walked this today and this is nuts.

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@PolesWires

6 months

In 10 years, when these trees mature, this will be one of the nicest sidewalk stretches in Toronto. The seating is already attracting a vitality to this pedestrian space.

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1 year

Part of the Well is now accessible. First bank branch opened on the lower level. Looks like there will be lots of new stores and restaurants in my 15 minute city.

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2 years

How did the “planned” Liberty Village in Toronto become so car centric? Narrow sidewalks, no bicycle lanes, lots of on street parking, surface lots and cars, cars cars. It even has a strip mall. Where is the square with cafes spilling on to it?

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6 months

Years ago this condo on King had these planters constructed. No trees were planted and for fleeting time there were some weeds. Now it is just the largest tripping hazard on King. Either use it or remove it. Year after year we just shrug our shoulders at this. This is so Toronto.

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6 months

In Paris this would be a row of majestic trees.

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10 months

Welcome to Toronto. No misleading advertising here. What you see here at the gateway to the city pretty much reflects the aesthetics of Toronto.

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1 year

@marksaunders_TO Mark, you are confused. You do realize most people who travel downtown don’t do it by car? There is simply not enough space for every car, even if you rip up all the sidewalks. They just won’t fit. It takes a 2 km line of single occupancy cars to match one full streetcar.

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8 months

Extensive planning went into maximizing the visual clutter here.

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1 year

🧵I just had a heated discussion with driver of this delivery truck on Wellington about parking in the newly created protected bicycle lane that brings up several issues. Also had a disagreement with the employee of the restaurant the delivery was being made to. @TO_Cycling_Ped

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@PolesWires

2 years

@brianlilley I like it. People who live here likely like it. I don’t know where you live, but you can ask for more asphalt where you live.

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3 months

Watching many buses just fly by. Car traffic seems no worse on the 2 lanes instead of 3. Maybe having 3 dedicated lanes for cars all having to converge to get onto one on-ramp does not help car drivers.

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@PolesWires

7 months

Why are all our public parks and spaces surrounded by “road moats”? They cut of these spaces and limit what we can do with them. It would be nice to have some of these spaces hug right up to buildings to allow cafes to spill into them.

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@PolesWires

5 months

Disappointing and TYPICAL Toronto. Already breaking up the beautiful sidewalk. What a city.

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@PolesWires

3 years

@jonburkeUK If you could please tell @cityoftoronto that dead tree trunks that hold up electrical infrastructure doesn’t accomplish the same thing.

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9 months

Why do we use so many signs? If the traffic light had a red and a yellow arrow, the same way it has a green arrow, then the other three signs would be superfluous. These extra signs are distracting and require us to interpret more information than necessary.

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9 months

How can we afford all those nice new buildings, but keep the streets looking like this? These utility poles do not have much utility on a narrow sidewalk like this. Perhaps the city should take part of the surface parking lot back. Looks like it is infringing.

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6 months

What if tracks had been lowered a bit more and instead of the scaffold top. It has been made into a full tunnel with park on top. And of course allowed more pedestrian and bike access between Liberty Village and King Street West. Short term cost savings, but life long impact.

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@PolesWires

6 months

Why is there not more infrastructure in Liberty Village to support this walkable community? Sidewalks are too narrow, disproportionate space dedicated to cars, and no cycling infrastructure. Most people, walk, cycle or take transit, but you wouldn’t know that from the roads.

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7 months

I am not sure why in Toronto we treat our public shared spaces is such a utilitarian way. Anything more is seen as decadence. We are not deserving of spaces we may enjoy. Money should not be spent on this.

George Bell

@georgebell

7 months

Welcome to Toronto, where for 10 years we've not been able to come up with a better solution than this...

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1 year

Cycling to school in downtown Toronto made possible by separated and protected bike lanes.

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@PolesWires

8 months

If it is clear that you can make a right on the green arrow, why not use a red arrow to clearly indicate you are not allowed to turn. Don’t know why we need three signs explaining an ambiguous solid red light. The traffic light should be entirely self explanatory.

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@PolesWires

2 years

@PetruSofio But why in North America do we continue to tolerate above ground electrical infrastructure? Look at it, it is ugly.

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5 months

Soooo, it is possible in Toronto to have a street with healthy large trees, even when some trees are in the shadow of a building. So why do we not see more of this?

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@PolesWires

2 years

@natalia_barbour In North America we don’t build our cities or suburbs for children. If we did, children could be more independent. I can tell you that as a 12 year old arriving to Canada from the Netherlands I felt stuck and dependent. Couldn’t go anywhere by myself.

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King W, the city successfully reduced cars (for the most part), but if we are honest, it is still primarily a car space. How many years since the program became permanent and it we have not really altered this space.

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@PolesWires

9 months

I noticed lots of cyclists on Welllington this morning too. I think now that we have gotten used to the lower temperatures, many are realizing cycling on days like today is actually quite good.

Paul Kulig

@PaulKulig_TO

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“Toronto only has six months of good weather. Nobody rides their #bikeTO in the winter!” Meanwhile, on February 1st:

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1 year

@BradMBradford Brad, tell us how you will fix car gridlock as more people move into the city and surrounding areas. Will you take out sidewalks and buildings to make room? We have finite space and the space should be allocated to more efficient transportation forms.

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2 years

More of this please. Why are we not using more of this for parking lots in Toronto and Ontario? Especially where parking is sporadic or in places like provincial parks.

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5 months

Can you tell if this beg button is pressed? Neither can the other pedestrians. The light is obscured. Normally someone is standing close and others assume the button has been pressed only to discover the pedestrian light does not change. Why is our design so poor?

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7 months

Having just passed 1000 followers, I would be remiss if i didn’t post a picture of what started the reason for this account…at the risk of losing any of you.

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@CarsRuinedCity OMG, I had to check this out on Apple Maps myself to make sure this is real. Unbelievable! Hard to imagine a worse place to put a school (unless you hate children and don’t care about their health).

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@PolesWires

7 months

Sometimes it is will and not money that prevents us from burying unsightly utilities. Here millions spent on wide sidewalks and making it look great, except for the antiquated electrical infrastructure left standing. Even accommodated the poles.

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2 years

@UrbanNomad Back then cars had a nice view of the lake while their owners were at work. Cars were happier back then.

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8 months

Is it unreasonable to think that Uber Eats, DoorDash should ensure their bike couriers should use lights at night the same way employers need to ensure employees use safety equipment?

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@PolesWires

5 months

Terrible waste of land that requires so much ugly car infrastructure to support it.

J.D. Nomad

@UrbanNomad

5 months

I still can’t get over how we have a housing crisis + a greenbelt + 70 years of hindsight and yet we’re still doing this

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1 year

Just arrived in Milan and struck how differently city parks are set up and used here. Less grass and more trees and paths. Playgrounds nestled in the park. Cafes to enjoy a coffee or glass of wine. Toronto’s parks could be so much more.

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6 months

This square, just off of King W, tucked between buildings on 4 sides is dedicated to car parking. Imagine this space repurposed to a pedestrian space with cafes spilling from the buildings into the square. Add some trees.

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@PolesWires

6 months

At The Well. Still amazed at the failure to deal with this shitty legacy electrical infrastructure. 100s of millions spent on this landmark project yet we still have this to look at. Could not bury it or consolidate with wires on north side of Wellington.

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1 year

@marksaunders_TO “Ease congestion” by allowing the least efficient vehicle back on this road. The next street car with 200 people on it will sail through unhindered by a road filled with cars. 200 cars take up 2 km of road! Try getting 2 km of cars through a single light cycle.

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1 year

@marksaunders_TO I guess your next great idea is close runways since most of the time there is no plane on it. How about train tracks, most of the time there is no train to be seen.

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9 months

Toronto’s composting program. Citywide? Program started 2 years ago on this street.

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@PolesWires

11 months

Got to love how Toronto deals with interlock stones. Maybe if an owner uses it surrounding their building then make them responsible for maintaining it properly.

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@PolesWires

3 months

@jen_keesmaat We don’t permit ourselves to enjoy the city. Roads are only a means to get from point A to B Pools are only a place to swim (this concrete and chanlink fences) Public spaces are to move through and not linger no places to sit) Patios are only to make money No maintenance

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1 year

Not looking to get anyone fired or boycott the restaurant (a favorite of mine for decades), but am looking for a change in attitude towards bicycle lanes. They are not at the discretion of when motorists or delivery truck deem them to be ok for them to use or cyclists to use.

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2 years

@Ruthless_in_TO @NotSafe4BikesTO How many years has Toronto now spent carving out space for cyclists, but not gone to the next step and actually physically implementing proper separated cycling lanes? Not paint, not plastic bollards, not moveable concrete slabs, but actually raised, colour identified paths.

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6 months

Can someone explain natural gas connections in Toronto. I don’t see this in European countries. If it is a safety issue then why do we allow these utilities to be placed where they are likely to be hit by trucks?

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@PolesWires

10 months

@observetoronto Countless cities have pedestrianized areas in their cities, yet Toronto approaches the his as if it some new concept that might not work. Who in their right mind would drive and try to park in Kensington market?

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2 years

@AmericanFietser People are blind to what cars have done to their cities and towns. Main design principle is not people, but cars. Everything flows from that 1st principle. Look around outside where you are now and tell me that is not the case. Where you are looks the way it is b/c of cars.

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2 years

How crazy are single occupancy cars? If you filled all 6 lanes (3 northbound and 3 southbound) of the entire 15 km stretch of the Don Valley Parkway with cars bumper to bumper, you could fit 18,000 cars. All those people could fit in 10 GO Trains.

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10 months

Only in Toronto can a pedestrian bridge be unfriendly to pedestrians. Why not also a staircase on the south east side of this walking bridge? If your destination is east you must first “go west young man”. Extra 200 m added to the walk. Who approves this?

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@PolesWires

8 months

Failure of the @cityoftoronto to set expectations for the builder. Fence is a vestige. Totally waisted space. Aesthetically terrible. Looks incomplete. Millions spent on a development only to leave the city street and pedestrian space looking like this.

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5 months

Pedestrian use actually matching the original architectural drawings. Build it and they will come and sit.

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11 months

@CityNewsTO It may come as a shock, but traffic lights in Toronto are primitive. I was reminded of this again in the Netherlands last month. Lights respond to traffic. No other cars, bikes or pedestrians and it switches within seconds for you. You have to experience it to understand.

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@PolesWires

2 years

@TransitThinker You know those elevator doors are too expensive too. Just tell people to stay clear of the elevator shaft until the elevator arrives. If that sounds crazy then so should subway platforms without screen doors.

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@wardFORpeople @TO_Cycling_Ped @biketo @BikewaysTO @TheBikingLawyer @BicycleMayorTO In the Netherlands all bike paths have red pavement. Through the whole country. For decades. No confusion where cars or pedestrians don’t belong. Maybe we should pay attention to what works and implement here instead or reinventing the wheel Toronto style.

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2 years

If this is needed to keep hydro poles standing straight then maybe, just maybe we need to rethink how we do things.

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@PolesWires

6 months

Much hoopla about the improvements to the field and seats at the Roger’s Centre (nee Skydome). I assume that there will be improvements outside too. But in the years leading up to this how much does it cost to put a cost of paint on this?

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2 years

Some car drivers who use Bloor Street daily are frustrated that there are “empty” bicycle lanes and feel this impedes their trip. No complaints about the large percentage of road that is still dedicated to parked cars.

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1 year

@the_transit_guy I like the footprint of this gas station in Milan.

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6 months

Can’t tell because most of them have illegally tinted windows ;). I suspect most are single occupancy.

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1 year

Lovely. We need more poles.

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1 year

This is a big fu to all the cyclist on one of the busiest bicycle route. The entire bicycle month this has been closed. Old bicycle lane closed now lane not open but jammed with parked cars. Even the parking meter is still there. Poor planning.

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1 year

@ligita80861280 @ctv_jon @CTVToronto Everything you see in this picture looks this way and investment was made because we decided cars needed to be prioritized. I think we can invest a little bit and dedicate some space to cyclists and pedestrians.

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@PolesWires

6 months

btw, there are less than 100 cars in this shot.

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6 months

@TheBikingLawyer It has been about 20 years since my former graduate supervisor met the same fate on Avenue Rd. This is what happens when drivers feel they should not give up any of the 6 lanes for wider sidewalks and bicycle lanes. Essentially it reduces the options that people can safely use.

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1 year

“I don’t care was the response of the driver”. This is the biggest issue and why bike lanes are always obstructed. The safety of cyclists comes after the convenience of delivery trucks and motorists.

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@TheBikingLawyer 5 cars may sit there for 3 hours and all the car drivers are fine with that. But if in the same period 5 bikes go by they will say the lane is not used. Pretty sure over 3 hours there are many more than 5 bikes using this lane.

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@PolesWires

1 year

So busy and yet there are still two lanes dedicated to car parking.

jnyyz 🚲

@jnyyz

1 year

Thanks to everyone who rode today in support of safe streets, and the bike lanes on Bloor. @BikewaysTO

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Stacked market (Front and Bathurst) is one of the best uses of public spaces in Toronto. Why can’t we be this creative with our parks?

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2 years

@the_transit_guy @CarsRuinedCity To think we did all this to accommodate cars, but taking a small strip of existing road for bicycles makes you a radical cyclists.

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@BradMBradford Car congestion is caused primarily by cars. If cars already take up 80% of the space on most roads then focusing on cars is not going to get you far, but then based on this clip you are already experiencing that.

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@marksaunders_TO Congestion for the majority of people was reduced by taking cars out of the way of public transit.

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1 year

@urbanthoughts11 There is sooo much not to love in this picture. Except for a few trees I don’t see anything that is actually redeeming about this urban hellscape. Wires, poles, pedestrian hostile, wide roads, all cars, ugly signs, parking…

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@PolesWires

10 months

Perhaps with the money saved by not signing up Ohtani, the Rogers/Jays could fix up the area around the Skydome. Looking pretty shoddy.

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@PolesWires

10 months

Too many mature trees are dying on downtown city streets without a program to replace them. As the years go by the tree canopy is being lost. Homeowners are not replacing these trees, neither is the city. What made this a nice street is now becoming an ugly street.

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@PolesWires

10 months

An excursion to the suburbs is good way to appreciate how much worse city planning is outside the Toronto core. HWY 7 east of the 427 is a good example of new developments still entirely planned around the car. Worst of all, traffic sucks in this car paradise.

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@PolesWires

1 year

You have a choice to stop in a separated and protected bike lane, a sidewalk and an actual space meant for parking. Which do you choose? Both the bike lane and sidewalk of course! It’s a bike lane (and sidewalk) until a motor vehicle needs it.

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@PolesWires

8 months

Multiple delivery vehicles blocking bike lanes in downtown. City needs to have businesses adjacent to bike lanes develop “Delivery Plans” that ensure bike lanes are not blocked. At the same time the city needs to set expectations and options for delivery to these businesses.

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@PolesWires

8 months

Toronto is working on the infrastructure but also needs a change in culture. This should just not be an option in the same way someone would just stop in a live vehicle lane. Demerit point should be the consequence of this action that endangers cyclists.

The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)

@TheBikingLawyer

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Parking in a bike lane to remove xmas ornaments is not appropriate or safe. It’s also clear that cyclist safety is not a priority for TPS enforcement officers. So what can we do? Read our blog on automated enforcement & citizen ticketing #bikeTO :

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@marksaunders_TO A streetcar with 200 people on it waiting for a few cars taking a left makes sense? A 5 minute wait is a combined 1000 minutes for everyone or 16 hours. Maybe if you had to reimburse everyone for their time you would think differently.

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The use of tinted widows makes it difficult to see if there is anyone in a parked car that may suddenly open the car door and door a cyclists. How are tinted windows allowed? It reduces abilities of others to anticipate a drivers action.

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@marksaunders_TO This is said as if everyone drives, and we are forcing people out of cars. The fact is most people already don’t move around by car downtown and King street actually eased the congestion for public transportation.

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@cityoftoronto @TO_Transport it has now been over a month! 5 cars can continue to park, but pedestrians are forced to cross the street twice on Bathurst south at King. Why not remove the parking and provide that space for pedestrians to walk away past the construction?

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2 years

@AmericanFietser Driving to public transportation is a failure of public transportation.

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3 years

@mikestarrunner So, let me get this straight. This person rather see the people on that half full bus, say 20 people, get into 20 cars and sit in traffic with him? Also, if the bus is saving a minute then collectively the 20 people on the bus are saving 20 minutes.

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Today I had to give a lecture at the university. It was -2C. The 3 km trip took 15 minutes on bike. Faster than car or public transportation. No problems finding parking and did not have to stand in the cold waiting for streetcars. On my way back counted at least 50 cyclists.

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@PolesWires

9 months

Not sure why this obviously effective strategy is not implemented elsewhere. I’m talking to you Toronto.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

9 months

For safety, continuity, and clarity, all cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands features a top coat of red-tinted asphalt. Not only is it far more durable than paint, it acts as a visual cue that—no matter where you are in the country—red means bikes.

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Toronto Poles and Dangling Wires

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@the_transit_guy Visited Chicago several times. It’s a real challenge walking from the city to the lake either from downtown or the convention center. Once on the lakeside I walked along a street (McFetridge) that allows you to exit if you are in a car, but was impossible as a pedestrian. Crazy!

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