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Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes headed downtown)
- Thread starter MetroMan
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ADRM
Senior Member
Shaw. Boom.
sche
Active Member
Wouldn’t people using bikeshare block the bike lanes?
mickael
Active Member
It's definitely a little narrow but there are other similar instances around the city. The green paint implies it's a shared area, no?
sche
Active Member
I‘m pretty sure green paint just means bike lane, it’s just only used in areas where it is necessary to make it clearer to motorists.
afransen
Senior Member
Those signs look like a hazard, especially with the bike share dock.
mickael
Active Member
They should have put it on the other side where there's more space. Looks to be the minimum size they could've squeezed it in
rickvbiker
New Member
Can the snowplows they use for bike lanes get through there? Where will the snow go?
mickael
Active Member
The chicanes around the patios on Danforth are super narrow, Bloor has them that bit wider (though less "permanent" at the moment), and it's much better.
ndawgg
Active Member
Was just on Harbord so my partner could drop into CAFE. As with every time I'm there, someone was parked in the bike lane on the north side of Harbord. I saw him come out of CAFE, get into his car and drive off. Then I watched a family with a small child on bikes almost get hit by a car pulling out of Robert Street. Then a guy pulled his car into the bike lane on the south side of Harbord and get out. I yelled, "That's not a parking spot, it's a bike lane" and he said, "I'll just be a minute". I cursed him out (yeah I know...lol) and he just did not care and went inside CAFE.
I'm loving all the bike lanes, but I've had it with paint on the road. There needs to be concrete barriers everywhere to protect cyclists and make it impossible to park there. I just wrote to cycling@toronto.ca and Cllr Mike Layton asking for concrete barriers on Harbord around that area, but I'm at a loss. Is there any formal way to request these types of things? Any way for the public to vote on where we need protection, etc?
I'm loving all the bike lanes, but I've had it with paint on the road. There needs to be concrete barriers everywhere to protect cyclists and make it impossible to park there. I just wrote to cycling@toronto.ca and Cllr Mike Layton asking for concrete barriers on Harbord around that area, but I'm at a loss. Is there any formal way to request these types of things? Any way for the public to vote on where we need protection, etc?
Are you a member of Cycle Toronto? They are the largest cycling advocacy group. Working with your councillor is a good thing, and Layton is a friend to cycling. There are also ward cycling groups that you can hook up with to help lobby/advocate.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Instead of painting bicycle lanes, we should be using coloured asphalt.
H4F33Z
Active Member
False, we paint bike lanes green and people still park in em'
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Paint on asphalt wears out. Sometimes the painted surface even gets slippery in the rain or snow.
Andy_in_Toronto
Active Member
Another weekend on the Bloor St East “cycle tracks”
