I have. I've seen cars going through reds 2 or 3 at a time. I've had to jump out of the way numerous times while crossing on a green ped signal where a driver had insufficient patience or consideration to obey the signed rule about yielding to peds. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who's tried...

I do a lot of the same kind of riding (when I can), but you're a lot farther east, so the Warden Woods/Crescent Town/Taylor Creek part of what you described is the only part I'm familiar with. (One day I'll get out to the east end and ride the waterfront to the Rouge and beyond ...). One of my...

There are ones across Bayview at the Brick Works and also at Queen's Park Crescent West at Hoskin. In the latter case, the bike signal is distinct from the pedestrian and main traffic signals, since cars make the southbound turn first. In other situations, such as where bike trails in hydro...

I don't see this as much different from the Sun endorsing the 'put the Crosstown in a tunnel' crowd and then running pieces about how noisy and vibratey tunnel construction is.

It is dangerous, but it's harder to do without falling over than driving and texting, which is much more common. I see an incredible number of drivers pick up their phones while waiting at lights and continue texting as they move off.

There was an elderly guy struck by a bike on the sidewalk on Finch, I think, who died of his injuries, and also a woman struck by a bike at Dundas & Huron (non-fatal) that made the news for some reason.

You mean the bu-tox? (1:02)

I thought he didn't actually live in Toronto (although maybe that's not an impediment for school trustees).

Thank you. Even if I did have a bike with me, it wouldn't have helped much, since I was picking up two kids.

Thanks for completely misconstruing my point, McKinnon. Which was that for all the convenience and safety of the subway that you tout, transit isn't perfect either. If it's not the sudden and unexplained service interruptions or the deficient replacement service, it's the crowding, the...

I switched from tokens/weekly passes to a Presto card, since I don't use the TTC enough to make a Metropass worthwhile. Biking is often faster and always more direct.

Because overseeing construction sites doesn't mean harassing the public?

And then there's situations like yesterday's subway outage. Traffic's already heavy, shuttle buses take a long time to materialize or get anywhere and your only real option is to walk with many others to the next working subway station. But yeah, what's the attraction of cycling?

Unless it was ... find one billion in debt, make it disappear from the books, voilà, one billion "saved".

There's still a bit of doubling up on that part of Richmond - crossing Spadina can get a bit chaotic because there are right-turning cars and some cyclists go around behind them (good) while others go in front (nooo) and then the two streams meet up again, and some riders really want to get...

The stations are there but it's not true to say there is an abandoned *line* anywhere. I think some people may be conflating the existence of Lower Bay/Lower Queen with that underpass (I always forget where it is exactly) that says 'Queen Subway' and which is just an underpass that predates the...

It was actually the idea of having a 'favourite Baltic state' that he said was not a thing.

I thought so too, but oddly enough, Shell has a grand total of nine stations across Canada with Tim Hortons attached. It's a little like how Tim Hortons expanded into Ireland, at gas stations only.

This is kind of the opposite phenomenon, but Shell Canada stations will start selling Costa Coffee, the UK's largest coffee retailer and the global #2 after Starbucks ... which is weird, considering some Shell gas stations have Tim Hortons, don't they?

Yep. They really are capitalizing on the demise of Vroom & Dreesmann, which was a little more like Eaton's than HBC is, and they'll be slightly more upscale than De Bijenkorf, which is owned by the Westons. International Clothiers holds (held?) the trademark for selling V&D branded menswear...