CITY COUNCIL
• Library board defies Ford to seek increase [The Star]
• City wants to be “At Your Service” [National Post]
• What a deal! $6M in property for $260Gs [The Sun]
HERITAGE BUILDINGS
• Top storey of Yonge St. building facade comes down [The Star]
• Firefighters face increasing peril as vacant death traps proliferate [Globe & Mail]
• Mysterious figure seen entering building before Yonge Street blaze[National Post]
• Home of Maclean’s founder faces the wrecking ball [National Post]
• An Empress Hotel Mystery [Torontoist]
TRANSPORTATION
• Kids and seniors can now use Presto card on transit [The Star]
• City to build curbs for separate bike lanes downtown [The Star]
• Some late-night TTC bus routes being reviewed [The Star]
• It’s a transit platform, it’s a bike lane, it’s a…? [BlogTO]
• How will Toronto’s electric car infrastructure be powered? [BlogTO]
HEALTH BOARD
• Health board wants budget boost to fight bedbugs [The Star]
• Health board asks for $500k to fight bed bugs [National Post]
• Public Health seeks budget boost to fight bed bugs [Globe & Mail]
• Bed bugs among budget pests biting into Ford’s hold-the-line plans [Globe & Mail]
• Filion re-elected health board chair [The Sun]
POLICE & CRIME
• Abdelhaleem ‘principal architect’ of Toronto 18 plot: Crown [National Post]
• Blair, Ford heading for showdown [The Sun]
NEIGHBOURHOODS & COMMUNITIES
• King Township power plant looks a go [The Star]
• Fiorito: Poverty makes us sick; it ought to make us angry [The Star]
• Terror threat fails to halt Christmas services for Canada’s Coptics [Globe & Mail]
• Rob Ford pays a visit to Roncesvalles [BlogTO]
• Fixing Toronto’s uneven wards [OpenFile]
• When Koreatown gets a little less Korean [OpenFile]
OTHER NEWS
• Big beer tank convoy changes route [The Star]
• Podcast: On police, policy and pitchmen [National Post]
2 comments
Re: City to build curbs for separate bike lanes downtown
I’d applaud Ford and his gang if they can really pull this one off. Personally I am just fine with the bikes lanes as they are, but I do think separate lanes can encourage more people come out cycling, making cycling more mainstream than it is today. Now just make sure that a decent separation between these lanes and parked cars (so no door prize), and vigorously clean the snow from these lanes, for days like today.
I don’t understand how these will work. How will snow be cleaned? How will cyclists be allowed to pass other, slower cyclists? How will cyclists be able to make proper left turns? I feel like this is based on the notion that cycling is a recreational activity at most and that people on bikes simply want to bike up and down a street, then go home.