Our cycling advocate friends to the west and north of us recently sent a joint letter to several councillors and the mayor. They requested for safety improvements on Bayview. When you look at the map, it's quite striking how fragmented and incomplete the infrastructure is now. Please consider writing to the below councillors today in … Continue reading Joint Letter Requesting Cycling Safety on Bayview
There's a public meeting coming up next week for the section of the Danforth east of us. Not Ward30, but very close to us. Below is Cycle Toronto's action alert, if you can make it out to the public meeting please do!City Council recently reinstated the Danforth Corridor Study to determine the feasibility of bike … Continue reading Danforth East public meeting on Monday – help make bike lanes on the Danforth a reality!
By Ward 30 Bikes member, Michael HollowayRiverside Square is a 4 acre neighbourhood development west of Broadview south of Queen St E down to Eastern Avenue.Streetcar.ca | Welcome to Riverside Square | http://streetcar.ca/welcome-riverside-square/I attended tonight's meeting representing Ward 30 Bikes. Streetcar's VP of Development Jason Garland introduced a 20 minute power point presentation by Streetcar's … Continue reading Riverside Square Community Consultation – Meeting #1
Did a walkabout today (Sunday, October 19, 2014) of the Riverside Square proposed Development by Streetcar - to begin to understand their proposed connections planning.Streetcar.ca | Welcome to Riverside Square | http://streetcar.ca/welcome-riverside-square/We know that safe cycling routes attract cyclist users; but we also know that if that safe route is not a direct one it … Continue reading Does Streetcar’s Riverside Square proposal make the Cycling Connection across the DVP?
In Part 3 of the "LSB/LDRT Intersection Hazards" series, I get good video of drivers blocking the trail - at virtually every instance - as they try to make turns from southbound Logan onto westbound Lake Shore Boulevard. In the second of these two video in Part 3, I look at the massing in driver's … Continue reading Pt 3 – LSB/LDRT Intersection Hazards – Massing to the East of Logan
Conflicts between Drivers and Lower Don Recreation Trail users at Lake Shore Boulevard and the neighbourhood streets running north-south out of South Riverdale - Morse St, Logan St and Booth St - are the usual coarse of events when motor vehicle drivers try to make the dangerous and heart pounding merge onto the fast Lake … Continue reading Pt 2 – LSB/LDRT Intersection Hazards – Driver Sightlines
LSB/LDRT Intersection Hazards .. I end with "..it's a big problem ... at Morse..." - and I go on to say (as my battery over-heats) - 'at Logan and Booth.' That is - Conflicts between Drivers and Trail Users - where the motor vehicle drivers are nosing into the Lower Don Recreation Trail (or completely … Continue reading LSB/LDRT Intersection Hazards
Finance - Industry would line East Waterfront with Highrise Condo Towers from Don River to Woodbine.By Michael Holloway Streetcar Developments - the developer who bought Jilly's - and is voluntarily including low income units in their plan for the remodeling of the property - have also acquired a 4 acre site between Eastern and Queen … Continue reading Masters of Industry: South Riverdale to be the new West-of-Spadina High-rise Tower Goldmine
I've been passionate about cycling all my life. I've never had a drivers license, and I've biked everywhere I needed to go; even when I lived in the country as a kid - 10km from my high school. I've written about and mapped about better cycling routes for years over at Biking Toronto1 But l … Continue reading "What she said" – City of Toronto Cheif Planner Jennifer Keesmaat’s ‘Liveable Cities’ narrative
By Michael Holloway, March 30, 2014 8:15 PM At development meetings I get into trouble advocating for bike parking. What they want to demolish – 1327 Queen East (right) and 1329 Queen East. The houses to the east of this are included in this proposal. They would disappear as well. (Image via The Ashbridge's Neighbourhood … Continue reading "I advocate for "Liveable Cities" Re-development; therefore I advocate for GREAT Bicycle Parking."
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