Import of a Dutch design was a response to cyclist death at Bloor and St. George streets
By Austin Kelly
By Austin Kelly
Tags: Annex · News · On the cover
Premier Doug Ford, while apparently unable or unwilling to address urgent provincial crises in health care, education, and the ongoing existential threat of climate change, has instead told an Empire Club luncheon last week that he is planning to “rip out bike lanes on major roads such as Bloor Street.” The elites at the lunch were thrilled, a group whose praise Ford craves.
Tags: Annex · Editorial · Opinion
RE: Road safety for some, sometimes
I appreciated Albert Koehl’s excellent editorial piece regarding the serious hazards bike riders face as underlined by the recent death of a young female cyclist on Bloor Street.
Construction projects and aggressive motorists indeed present a serious challenge to bike safety especially in situations where there are merge points.
Tags: Annex · Letters · Opinion
By Jessica Bell
Queen’s Park should be solving our biggest challenges, like climate change, homelessness, and fixing our public services, from health care to schools.
Tags: General
By Meredith Poirier
The groovy L’Espresso Bar Mecurio, a bright Italian cafe at the intersection of Bloor and St. George streets hosted Albert Koehl’s book launch on May 27.
Tags: General
By Dianne Saxe
The first month of the new year has been an eventful one at city hall. I am pleased to report that two crucial issues have successfully moved forward.
Tags: General
By Fox Oliver
The Bike Lane and Road Safety Upgrades on Davenport Road involve an upgrade plan which will take place over three phases, and the second phase is scheduled to begin this month.
In “The Pothole”, the award-winning 150th episode Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer adopts a one mile stretch of the Arthur Burghardt Expressway after running over an abandoned sewing machine. Kramer decides to make his newly adopted section of a highway a more luxurious experience for drivers by reducing four lanes to two extra-wide ones. What results — to great comedic effect — is mass confusion and chaos and, a lesson in how not to manage a highway.
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By Annemarie Brissenden
Do bike lanes make cycling inherently safer?
That question was up for debate at January’s Grounds for Thought, which runs the last Tuesday of every month at the Green Beanery at Bloor and Bathurst streets. With free coffee on offer, Grounds for Thought is an homage to the coffee houses of old, places where dissent and unconventional ideas were not only welcomed but encouraged.
By Geremy Bordonaro
It’s been a long time coming but the Bloor Street bike lanes are now a permanent fixture of the community.