Toronto CityPlace: Canoe Landing Community Centre & Schools | 15.85m | 3s | City of Toronto | ZAS Architects

[allengeorge]

...he unprotected, paint-only bike lanes through the neighbourhood are near-constantly parked-in ...

If there already are bike lanes (even paint-only ones) why isn’t the city converting them to protected ones? What is the procedure/process for doing this?

 

[DSC]

If there already are bike lanes (even paint-only ones) why isn’t the city converting them to protected ones? What is the procedure/process for doing this?

There a real differences between painted sharrows and fully protected lanes (both for safety and approvals). Some streets are too narrow (if you are a car driver!) for fully protected lanes so sharrows are justa way to remind drivers to 'share the road'. If you want a painted lane better protected you should probably contact your Councillor's Office (or Cycle Toronto ( https://www.cycleto.ca/ ) Here are some figures from City website:

On Street Cycling Infrastructure (Lane Kilometers)
As of February, 2020

Cycle tracks: 42 km
White bicycle lanes: 233 km
Yellow “contra-flow” bicycle lanes: 10 km
Signed routes with shared lane pavement markings (“sharrows”): 98 km
Signed routes (no pavement markings): 243 km
On-street total: 627 km

Multi-Use Trails (Centreline Kilometers)
As of February, 2020
Off road trails, including rail trails, hydro corridor trails, boulevard trails, and major parks trails: 346 km

 

[ADRM]

If there already are bike lanes (even paint-only ones) why isn’t the city converting them to protected ones? What is the procedure/process for doing this?

Two reasons: they can't do that if they're oriented in the dooring zone (on the driver's side) of parking, as they are in Cityplace, and the City stipulates a minimum width for physically separated bike lanes that is wider than the Cityplace bike lanes. So they'd have to rip out the median to make that happen.

 

[allengeorge]

Thank you both - appreciate the explanations.

 

[Red Mars]

Thu Jul 23, 2020

 

[Amare]

Is it a sad thing that this is the best looking building in CityPlace?

I'd say Concord should be ashamed of themselves, but clearly they haven't learned their lesson.

 

[mezimeen]

Is it a sad thing that this is the best looking building in CityPlace?

I'd say Concord should be ashamed of themselves, but clearly they haven't learned their lesson.

I say it's an obvious thing that it's the best looking building there, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Also, fyi Concord has nothing to do with this, it's a building with 3 owners - The City, TDSB and TCDSB

 

[Amare]

I say it's an obvious thing that it's the best looking building there, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Also, fyi Concord has nothing to do with this, it's a building with 3 owners - The City, TDSB and TCDSB

And that's exactly the reason why it's the best looking building around in the neighborhood, because Concord had nothing to do with it

 

[Torontovibe]

I took a walk around and filmed both buildings, check it out here -

 

[Rascacielo]

The community centre hosts a kids' day camp on weekdays, when it's also open to the public, but public access is limited to the lobby area (there are some tables there where people can read or bring their laptops and work). When I visited last week, the receptionist was strict (no interior pictures allowed) but promised to give me a tour of the facilities when it's possible to do so. The most promising seems to be the third floor access to the green rooftop area.

 

[drum118]

Sept 03
Lot more up on site.................Using green roof

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Is that a designated graffiti wall that changes over themes periodically or just the one time mural?

 

[Edward Skira]

Are the schools open for classes?

 

[isaidso]

The elementary school down the street from me has been conducted super spreader events every day for weeks now so I guess this school will pile on too.

 

[AlbertC]

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