CITY HALL – BUDGET
• In Rob’s dreams [NOW]
• Audit calls for cuts to old-age homes, child care [Globe & Mail]
• Shutter environment office, plant fewer trees, cut daycare spots for saving: reports [National Post]
• Latest service reviews calls for daycare cuts, merging fire and EMS [National Post]
• Firefighters next on layoff list [The Star]
• Voters tired of waste message [National Post]
• Council backs Ford’s rejection of free nurses [The Star]
Graffiti Management Plan unanimously approved by City Council [The Grid]
• Taking aim at Toronto’s police budget [The Sun]
• Cut or impose hefty tax hikes: Councillor [The Sun]
• Union leader predicts city lockout next year [The Sun]
CYCLING – THE JARVIS BIKE LANE
• City passes motion to remove Jarvis bike lanes [Globe & Mail]
• Jarvis lanes had to die so others could be born [Globe & Mail]
• Council votes to scrap Jarvis bike lanes [The Star]
• City council votes to kill Jarvis bike lanes [National Post]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Nothing simple on Toronto roads [National Post]
• Toronto kills Jarvis, Scarborough bike lanes [National Post]
Mayor’s bike plan approved [The Grid]
• Bike battle a triumph for Toronto [The Sun – Sue-Ann Levy]
• Bike sharing for Bixi-less ‘burb dwellers [The Star]
DEVELOPMENT
• He built city hall. Now he’s suing it [The Star]
• Pickering Airport foes ready for an old fight [National Post]
OTHER NEWS
• Library union tells city: keep supporting us [The Star]
2 comments
1. I like how you now mention ahead of time if the article is written by SAL, though to her credit, this one was a little less derpy than some of her other ones.
2. I think the Globe and Mail article summed up my thoughts and feelings on the future bike network quite well. Yes, Jarvis is going, but now we will have a fully separated lane along Sherbourne, which is not a bad compromise. At the very least, let’s wait till the Sherbourne lanes are maxing out on capacity before removing lanes from other nearby arterials.
Also, in York Region along roads which are not wide enough for separate bike lanes, what they’ve done is added curb-side markers to help show where cyclists and drivers should be in the lane to avoid a collision. Seeing as a standard traffic lane is usually wide enough to accommodate both cars and cyclists, this also seems like a fair compromise and should be considered for Jarvis, and other roads which are predicted to have high cycling volumes but are not wide enough to implement a bike lane without removing a traffic lane.
excellent piece by Ed Keenan in Grid of TTC … http://www.thegridto.com/city/politics/why-we%E2%80%99re-all-pissed-at-the-ttc/
I couldn’t agree more with his last sentence: “And at some point, we need to redirect our rage from the frontline symptoms of disorder in the system to the executives who are either unable or unwilling to address them seriously.”