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POLITICS
• Green bin helps, but not enough to hit city’s goal of 70% [ Toronto Star ]
• Green bin reaches for the sky [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto’s green bin program moves into highrises [ CBC.ca ]
• Green bin recycling’s movin’ on up [ Toronto Sun]
• City betting tenants, landords willing to ‘do the right thing’ [ Toronto Star ]
• City curbs parking at Islington strip malls [ Toronto Star ]
• Showdown looms in Halton [ Toronto Star ]

ART
• Streetcar barn makes long journey to become artists’ colony [ CBC.ca ]
• Wych Will [ Eye Weekly ]
• Urban revival balances past and present [ Toronto Star ]
• Raising the barns [ NOW Magazine ]
• Dazzling Dundas [ NOW Magazine ]

TRANSIT
• City to clear snow from Martin Goodman Trail this winter…mostly [ National Post ]
• City gives cyclists a hand this winter [ Toronto Sun ]
• Cyclist who lost his leg unable to aid police [ Globe and Mail ]
• CUPE tries to extend its reach at the TTC [ Toronto Star ]
• Safe way across 401 just needs a sign [ Toronto Star ]

MISCELLANEOUS
• Naughty on St. Nick’s [ NOW Magazine ]

6 comments

  1. I hate Toronto. I can’t help it. This city does little to make you love it, if you lived somewhere with a better street life and civic-society (Montreal and Tokyo, in my case). And the bollards and lack of plowing on one of the few safe places to ride away from witless Toronto drivers is the last straw. Wait to see it not done AGAIN this year, or done infrequently and poorly. This despite the fact I saw several dozens of tracks in the snow on the path last night, as I made another set.

  2. Before someone responds with the remark that I should move, I’d love to. As a friends said to me: “Would you live in Toronto if not for work or family?” I almost spat out my wine.

  4. The National Post article links back to a PDF of the City staff report.

    My interpretation of the staff report is that parks and rec (the authors) are looking at it from the point of view of recreational cycling. If I am reading it correctly, it indicates that the pilot project is to literally follow the trail. For the section in the west end, this may be fine. For the section in the east end, this involves following the diversion along Leslie, Unwin and Cherry, which might be the closest route to the lake for recreational cyclists, but commuters will use the path on the north side of Lake Shore Boulevard. That, and the report also talks about the need to keep the washroom facilities open through the winter.

    So I suspect they’ve missed the point. It’s not to try and get people riding down to the lake on Saturdays… it’s to provide a continuous east-west commuter route into downtown.

  5. Hell, Shawn, I’m sure you and I could find something to like in Buffalo, but whether there isn’t something to like in Toronto isn’t the point. You see, on balance…