The City of Toronto is undertaking a major project to improve Jarvis Street — once a beautiful avenue of mansions, but now a rather unappealing through street.
You can find out more about the project on the City of Toronto website. The city is also experimenting with creating a Facebook group to see if that is a good way to encourage public involvement (although, ironically, I gather that city employees are normally banned from using Facebook during working hours and need to get special permission!).
The first public meeting about the project is next Wednesday, March 19 (we didn’t get the information until after our Thursday events listing). Here are the details:
Location: Canada’s National Ballet School
400 Jarvis Street, Town Square
Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm
A presentation will be made at 7:00pm
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Wow, never thought that day would come. The solution is simple enough – tear down the tangle of wires and signals for the reversible middle lane, and replace it with a green median, perhaps featuring a bike bath. This would restore Jarvis to Boulevard status while providing a decent N-S bike route from Bloor to the water. The cars will survive just fine without their extra lane.
Bike bath? Not sure where my mind is. Meant to say “bike path”.
I think the bike bath isn’t such a bad idea.
Amen, uSky. But my guess is they’ll say it would then be too narrow for a bike path and Sherbourne already has bike lanes.
Btw, the city hall link seems to say they plan to focus on Bloor to Gerrard and MAYBE down to Queen so it won’t reach the lake, though it should. For sure it should go as far as Queen.
I recall hearing once Kyle Rae expressing a desire to remake Jarvis, but saying he’d have a heck-of-a-fight from his Rosedale constituants on his hands who see it as their traffic pipe down to the Gardiner.
Which I have never really understood. Jarvis consistently looks like an unpleasant street to drive on, always backed up.
I lived right on Jarvis just below Gerrard and right diagonal from Allen Gardens (the hypodermic needle park) and Hooker Harvey’s.
I just moved because my building got broken into a few times, I got tired of being harrassed and my bikes kept getting stolen.
Those problems made it impossible for me to stay, which is too bad because I liked it there.
what of those problems? or is that just part and parcel with the urban sprawl?
apparently there’s a push to get bike lanes included though I tend to agree that Sherbourne’s okay/close though it desperately needs repaving which I’ve bugged Mr. Rae about – instead of the BYBIA Bloor rebuild. Or fix the area bike lanes first ahead of this 1km.
But if 50 folks ask about bike lanes, they’ll look at it. Looking at it isn’t doing it of course, we’re to think that merely providing the extra width for bike lanes eventually is good enough while the ice caps melt.