On May 19, the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition (TCBC) presented their Business Road Safety Champion Award to the Bloor-Annex Business Improvement Area (BIA) and to its general manager, Brian Burchell, for supporting pilot bike lanes and cycling advocacy.

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Annex advocacy group wants to hold city to its promise By Juan Romero The City of Toronto has approved the extension of the bike lanes on Bloor Street from Shaw Street to High Park and a local activist group is trying to make sure the project gets fulfilled. Bells on Bloor was founded back in […]

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The future of the Annex Family Festival is up in the air after most of its funds were cut by the Bloor Annex BIA at its annual general meeting on January 9. The organization’s board of directors presented the annual budget, which included funding for the festival, for approval by the general members. Barry Alper […]

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A celebratory year in review By Annemarie Brissenden Is it possible that we just like cake? Because it seems that we just couldn’t stop celebrating this year. Maybe all the calamity outside our borders made our small local victories all that sweeter. But from bike lanes to major anniversaries to plaque unveilings to greener parks, […]

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Study proposes to use laneways as bike lanes By Geremy Bordonaro Could Toronto’s network of laneways be integrated into the city’s cycling infrastructure? A recently launched study may answer that question. Sponsored by the Laneway Project, Laneways as Bikeways explores whether laneways could be converted into bikes lanes. “We know there’s the ten-year bicycle plan […]

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