Maybe I'm missing something (apologies if so!) but isn't the novelty of the earlier picture shown on Yonge the fact that the platform is to the left of the bike lane, rather than IN the bike lane. In this Eglinton example, it seems just like a more permanent variant of the style used on Bloor...

I don't need definitions, thanks. You applied it to "MAMILs" an already derisive term, in a way that implies you think that of all of them. It's no different from putting a derogatory adjective in front of any group identifier.

"sociopathic MAMILs"

I am sorry you have been so badly treated by packs of roving MAMILs. It doesn't reflect my experience though. I bike in HP often and have never felt that way once. Faster riders pass me in the wide roadway. They aren't looking for a collision. I have been passed unsafely by roadies, but it's...

Your hate for cyclists who ride road bikes is silly. They are a part of the cycling community, and while some might be dinks, they are not going anywhere. Replacing asphalt with gravel in HP or anywhere else is obviously an unserious idea.

I think technically you bike on that. If you broaden the search terms, obviously cyclists and pedestrians have had crashes. The MGT is not a well designed path, in that it doesn't separate cyclists from pedestrians at all -- though of course as the faster moving things, cyclists should give...

No one uses the park as a race track. You don't understand cycling or racing if that's what you think. Some ride fast, because that is how road cyclists train. Thirty or forty kph is normal for fit roadies on long rides. But no one is racing.This type of language (race track, Tour de France...

I wouldn't say "all going well" when they rescinded the protection on a stretch of Toronto's longest and most touted protected bikeway. In effect this turns Danforth/Main into a situation like at Bloor/Avenue, where a cyclist expecting protected lanes gets sharrows. And one was killed last...

Meanwhile actively DRIVING in a bike lane or cycle track will cost you a whopping $65. And driving a car on a sidewalk? $90, which is the same fine levied for riding a skateboard. I'm baffled at how low these fines are, but I imagine they are hypothetical anyway. A driver is extremely unlikely...

we could use a new word for the permanent state of temporariness Toronto loves so much

From a firsthand witness to this tragedy (who has video, though I am going off his recollections) the cyclist exited the bike lane and as she shoulder checked seemed to lose balance and swerve into/under the truck. This isn't to put any blame on the cyclist, or take any off the driver. But I...

I thought the fine for parking in a bike lane was already $150? This is a bike path as in an off-street path?

Like I said before something that exists for years is more than just "temporary." It is, in fact, a piece of infrastructure. For how many years do you accept some insufficient half-measure because it might someday be improved? What we need is good quality infrastructure now, present tense...

The cyclist was forced to leave the lane, by accounts, due to an obstruction that was in part made possible by a non-protected lane. I have had concerns about and reported that stretch of westbound Bloor to Avenue sevearl years ago. The protected lanes end and the lane becomes sharrows-only...

I said I was done here, but I don't assume anyone "wants to live the way I live." Personally, I bring a change a clothing if it's hot out. Or I survive with a bit of sweat. The majority of workers do not wear suit and tie to the job anymore, and as I mentioned before, workplace showers should be...

I'm unconvinced by these bullets. This design isn't in keeping with the original design for physically protected lanes here. Drainage? The curbs can be spaced out to reduce that issue. Mx permissions? If placing precast curbs is "heavy work" can the city not get that permission? There are lots...

Your anti-sweat agenda is part of the problem! People get a bit sweaty, man. It's human. If it's hot and they have to walk more than a block between ACs, they will sweat. If they ride a bike, they will sweat. This insistence on living in a sweat-free world where no one has any BO is absurd. It's...

We totally need to normalize a) being a bit sweaty workers but also b) having gyms or showers at workplaces. I feel like there was a trend towards the latter that was at least in part derailed by COVID and the WFH revolution.

So very disappointed in this. Yes the EglintonTOday project was always generally wedded to the Crosstown, but until this month the city had been promising the the temporary, interim bike lanes would go in this summer. This was done despite there never being an actual LRT opening date for years...

E bikes are really shifting these margins too, but there will still be some limits. I think 30-35km commutes are quite doable with *legal* 32 kph max ebikes, epsecially as they come down in price and get better, more efficient batteries. Many many people are in cars for over an 1-2 hours in the...