BMO
Senior Member
I never noticed, but I think you guys are being a little harsh
Nice to see this moving forward. I like the parking-buffered lanes. If it's just a normal bike lane, it has to have bollard and buffers like Option A. Really something more protective than bollards would be ideal.Cycle TO has a sneak preview of the Bloor bike lane pilot design options.
Shaw to Spadina needs to be option A. Spadina to Avenue, I could accept either option A or option C.
Public open house is at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, 427 Bloor St W, 4pm-8pm, December 2.
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Collision: Adelaide Street and Victoria Street -Cyclist struck
"Separated bike lanes" are not safe.
Very brave of you to volunteer for that. Best wishes on your new adventure.Surely we'd reduce suffering in society more by cutting off males genitals than we would worrying about cyclists.
I've simply proposed that we stop trying to improve safety by eliminating cyclists. Though my wife has made some recommendations on the other front ...Very brave of you to volunteer for that. Best wishes on your new adventure.
This spring, the Highbridge re-opened between the Bronx and Manhattan, the first car-free crossing linking the two boroughs. Now the second one in less than a year is open with the debut of the Randall's Island Connector. The project has been in the pipeline for what seems like forever, and on Saturday it opened to the delight of many South Bronx residents.
The connector provides a direct and easy link between the developing South Bronx greenway network and Randall's Island, with its athletic fields, picnic tables, miles of beautiful greenways, and stunning views of the Manhattan skyline. From Randall's Island, you can bike or walk to the big island via the 103rd Street footbridge.
Advance apologies for some of the sound. When the winds are gusting over 30 mph and you are below an Amtrak train trestle, well, those aren't ideal conditions. But kudos to the hundreds of people who showed up on a cold and blustery fall morning to celebrate the occasion.
It was a horrid month for fatalities indeed (of the 26 2 or 3 were cyclists).
Yes, I know that I am going to have a hard time convincing other people in this forum, but the city put out a report a few months ago stating that bicycling is dangerous and that bike lanes are dangerous.
The only way you are going to stop bike accidents is if you ban bicycling on major roads.
I'd be more in favour of banning cars. Or banning people who suggest we should ban bikes.The only way you are going to stop bike accidents is if you ban bicycling on major roads.
I'd be more in favour of banning cars. Or banning people who suggest we should ban bikes.
The fact of the matter is that bicycling in Toronto is dangerous. Isn't this rather obvious? There was a bike accident at Sheppard near Jane when I was writing this post. Yes, I know that I am going to have a hard time convincing other people in this forum, but the city put out a report a few months ago stating that bicycling is dangerous and that bike lanes are dangerous. Also I think that the vast majority of Toronto's population realizes this. Bicycles are a small percentage of the traffic downtown and you rarely see them in any other part of the city. Also the bike lanes downtown are filled with potholes, garbage, parked cars, streetcar tracks and other hazards.
The only way you are going to stop bike accidents is if you ban bicycling on major roads.
Why are you using a study from the UK to prove that bicycling in Toronto is dangerous? Actually, why do you keep posting here if you hate bikes so much?See http://webarchive.nationalarchives....h/rsrr/theme5/indepthstudyofmotorcycleacc.pdf
"Motorcyclists have an especially poor safety record when compared to other road user groups. Their killed and serious injury (KSI) rate in the UK, per million vehicle kilometres, is approximately twice that of pedal cyclists and over 16 times that of car drivers and passengers. Motorcyclists make up less than 1% of vehicle traffic but their riders suffer 14% of total deaths and serious injuries on Britain’s roads (DETR, 2000)."
In other words bicycling is 8x as dangerous as driving and riding a motorcycle is 16x as dangerous.
This seems rather radical to me.
I mean banning bikes on major roads (except for walking them on the sidewalk), not banning them altogther. I just do not think that there is any way to make bicycling on major roads safe. We have tried separated bike lanes on a few roads in Toronto and they have obvious safety problems (streetcar tracks, vehicles blocking them, construction blocking them, etc.) I know it will never happen with the current city council.
From the statistics I have read, the methods of transportation, in order of most dangerous to least dangerous: motorcycle, bicycle, walking, driving, bus, train.