Monday’s headlines - Spacing Toronto

CITY HALL
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: The city names its price [National Post]
• Will Mayor Ford put some fun into rule-obsessed Toronto? [The Star]
• Cellphone parking a win-win for the mean streets of Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• 1 in 5 gave up on city’s online survey before completing it [The Star]
• City fails to make the cut: Councillor [The Sun]
• Councillor seeks pothole website [The Sun]
• Click here for instant pothole report [National Post]

TTC
• Fiorito: A public servant is not a slave [The Star]
• Boring project excites Rob Ford [Globe & Mail]
• Two boring years: Officials kick off construction of new subway tunnels [National Post]
• Holey Moley! It’s a transit miracle [The Star]

DEVELOPMENT
• Putting some colour into GTA’s grey face [Globe & Mail]
• Nightmare on Bloor Street now a renovated dream [Globe & Mail]
• Urban sprawl collides with industry on city outskirts [National Post]
• PCBs ordered destroyed languish in west-end dump [The Star]

TCHC
• How to improve the TCHC [The Star]
• TCHC’s worst building has plenty of rust and roaches [The Star]
• The TCHC could learn few things from how public housing works in Europe [The Star]
• A TCHC success story: Why people love Roding Park Place [The Star]
• Fiorito: An open letter to the TCHC’s new board members [The Star]

ARTS & CULTURE
• Hume: Poet unveiling Legacy Plaques [The Star]
• Is it graffiti or art? City working on a new law to figure it out [The Star]
• Flash mob downloads instructions for fun [Globe & Mail]

OTHER NEWS
• The Fixer: Metal gates return to menace cyclists [The Star]
• Learning to live with raccoons [The Sun]
• Toronto cops G20 ‘whipping boys’ [The Sun]
• Time to splash in city’s outdoor pools [The Star]

One comment

There dozens of other areas in the city with similar disconnects..In order to ensure safe travel across heavily trafficked downtown areas cyclists should be able to get from one end of the city to the other without leaving a bike lane whether painted or separated..Bloor Danforth could have provided this. A Bloor Danforth bikeway would act as a crucial backbone in a cycling network that desperately needs a backbone connecting one side of the city to the other and was also supported by the Annex Residents Association in their own cycling report ..What is definitely disappointing to read however is the musing of the removal of bicycle lanes in a report that is purportedly about the creation of a cycling network. The two lanes which I might add city staff said have not negatively affected either traffic flow or parking are located on Pharmacy Avenue and on Birchmount Road and the removal will cost 120 000 and 90 000 respectively..This leads to an obvious question Why in a so-called age of fiscal restraint and budget woes are we contemplating spending 210 000 on the removal of bike lanes that have no adverse traffic effects?

Christina Carabini

14 years ago

There dozens of other areas in the city with similar disconnects..In order to ensure safe travel across heavily trafficked downtown areas cyclists should be able to get from one end of the city to the other without leaving a bike lane whether painted or separated..Bloor Danforth could have provided this. A Bloor Danforth bikeway would act as a crucial backbone in a cycling network that desperately needs a backbone connecting one side of the city to the other and was also supported by the Annex Residents Association in their own cycling report ..What is definitely disappointing to read however is the musing of the removal of bicycle lanes in a report that is purportedly about the creation of a cycling network. The two lanes which I might add city staff said have not negatively affected either traffic flow or parking are located on Pharmacy Avenue and on Birchmount Road and the removal will cost 120 000 and 90 000 respectively..This leads to an obvious question Why in a so-called age of fiscal restraint and budget woes are we contemplating spending 210 000 on the removal of bike lanes that have no adverse traffic effects?