Bikes
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Scarborough’s First Bicycle Path – and the students behind it
The university students behind Scarborough’s first bicycle path couldn’t have predicted that it would one day provide a lifeline to cooped-up families...
By Albert Koehl -
REID: Is ActiveTO on life support?
On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and cyclists / closed to motor...
By Dylan Reid -
REID: Yes exit
It’s the kind of thing that has always hung out at the edge of our urban consciousness, that we used to occasionally notice and find irritating, but not...
By Dylan Reid -
Progress during a pandemic – a cycling year in review
Toronto City Council approved a ten year bike plan in June 2016, which called for 335 kilometres of on-street cycling infrastructure. To track the...
By Robert Zaichkowski -
LORINC: 2020, a year of urban resilience
The answer to the “whither-cities” question that’s buzzed around the edges of pandemic punditry was never seriously in doubt. Cities are...
By John Lorinc -
Ten tips for the cycling advocate at City Hall
When Bells on Bloor was formed in 2007, we thought that convincing City Hall to install bike lanes was simply a question of demonstrating strong community...
By Albert Koehl -
How many injuries could separated cycling facilities prevent in Toronto?
City Building Ryerson has released a new report, Lane Change: Safer cycling infrastructure for Toronto, based on research led by Dr. Anne Harris of...
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REID: Our bridges should be places we want to walk
The City of Toronto is criss-crossed with ravines and sunken railways, and the way we connect the city across these gaps is with bridges. The most famous...
By Dylan Reid -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 049, City scenes that saved summer
It’s been a rough summer for everyone, but people have found ways to get outside and make the most of it. In this episode, we speak to 8 80...
By Glyn Bowerman -
Incomplete streets, incomplete imaginations: Safe streets for whom?
My experience in community bike spaces, and later in cycling advocacy spaces, has been profoundly impactful and transformative. I have become acquainted...
By Sabat Ismail -
REID: The beginning of the end for rush hour curb lanes?
One of the distinctive and ubiquitous characteristics of main streets in the older parts of Toronto is the rush hour curb lane. For two or four hours a...
By Dylan Reid -
Five organizations come together to produce a community map of Toronto “safeways”
In a great display of community collaboration, five Toronto-based organizations dedicated to improving and enhancing the city’s public realm have come...
By Ken Greenberg