Cycle Tracks

[Napoleon]

The preliminary evaluation reports for the Adelaide and Richmond Cycle Track pilot project are out. I know there's a heavy focus on the TTC and roads in this forum, but cycling represents a key way forward to grow existing transportation capacity without increasing roadway volume. The link to the main report page is here:
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=a2422ef2e21ad410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=ae48a00f92dd5410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
What's stunning is the graph on the front page showing the increase in cycling volume. The latest data point isn't even on the graph yet. For example, Adelaide went from a pre-cycle track volume of it looks like about ~500 cyclists per day before the cycle track to the latest data point of 2,200 cyclists per day! If you were to plot this on the graph, I'd say we haven't reached steady state…it would appear to be linearly increasing even.

The extension of the cycle tracks to Parliament will come up before the Public Works Committee next week.
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=9ec6b6f9fda0d410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=ae48a00f92dd5410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

There's still plenty of discussion to be had about cycle tracks in Toronto, in particular the gaps in the network, but I'd say this great progress.

 

[reaperexpress]

We already have several threads for this.

There's the cycling in Toronto thread and that other separated bike lanes thread.

 

[CDL.TO]

We already have several threads for this.

There's the cycling in Toronto thread and that other separated bike lanes thread.

Agreed.