CYCLING
• Cycling activists demand safer roads [ Toronto Star ]
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• Respect bikes [ Eye Weekly ]
CITY HALL
• ‘We have to get at the guns’: Miller [ Toronto Sun ]
• City poised to award contract for wireless water meters [ Globe and Mail ]
• City to court tourists in halls of justice [ Globe and Mail ]
• Street food burned by red tape [ Toronto Star ]
MISCELLANEOUS
• Just another change at Yonge and Bloor, but this one’s the biggest yet [ National Post ]
• The invisible minority [ Eye Weekly ]
• Durham incinerator clears key hurdle [ Toronto Star ]
3 comments
Re: the Toronto Star article, was anyone else surprised that every cycling fatality occured outside of the downtown core (which I’ll hastily describe as Bloor to Lakeshore, Bathurst to Parliament)?
The most “downtown” sites were Queen & Gladstone and Eastern & Leslie. The majority occured north of Eglinton ( pdf: http://www3.thestar.com/static/PDF/080529_bike-accidents.pdf )
regarding the link Brad J. posted, no surprise queen & gladstone is on the list. both intersections at the dufferin jog are brutal for all forms of traffic. let’s hope that after 40 years of doing nothing, they finally get this one right. construction was supposed to begin in “spring 2008”, but i haven’t seen anything yet.
Why would you be surprised that so many fatalities were outside of the downtown core? On those suburban streets, traffic generally moves faster and people are less used to sharing the road with cyclists.