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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new year has been an eventful one at city hall. I am pleased to report that two crucial issues have successfully moved forward.

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Phase two of this project involves upgrading pre-existing bike lanes into cycle tracks between Bedford Road and Bay Street.

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The City of Toronto is hoping upgrades can improve the safety of the area. They outlined their plans during a consultation meeting on Feb. 4.

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Toronto has always been a place where people with vision have put in the work to build their communities, and my recent communications with residents have shown that our city’s passion for progress is only getting stronger.

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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 — […]

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A dissenter makes his case 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 […]

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Council resoundingly votes in favour of Bloor Street bike lanes By Geremy Bordonaro It’s been a long time coming but the Bloor Street bike lanes are now a permanent fixture of the community. After hours of debate, questions, and rhetoric, Toronto City Council resoundingly voted 36 to 6 in favour of keeping the lanes. The […]

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Merchants need to look to themselves By Albert Koehl What if Bloor Street merchants — especially those who believe the bike lane is bad for business — could magically create a new supply of parking spots for their motoring customers? A recent report commissioned by the local BIAs (Bloor Annex and Koreatown) and the City […]

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What’s left out is just as important The data is in on the Bloor Street pilot bike lanes, and it seems to support keeping the lanes. (Now that the bike lanes are in, even on a pilot basis, it’s a little surreal to me that anyone actually wants to pull them out.) But speaking of […]

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When confronted with the question of whether or not to support the city’s pilot bike lanes on Bloor Street, the Bloor Annex and Korea Town Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) commissioned a study on the economic impact of the bike lanes. The comprehensive evaluation yielded clear results and also found a discrepancy between the attitudes of […]

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Economic impact of bike lanes still unclear By Geremy Bordonaro When it comes to bike lanes, business owners along Bloor Street West are evenly split: about half support them, and about half don’t. It’s a rift between business owners who think the lanes are a boon and those who think they are a bane. “The […]

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