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Toronto’s council voted 39-0 in June to install a “cycle track” on downtown Adelaide St. W. as part of a pilot project.
The city did not build a cycle track.
A cycle track is a bike lane physically separated from the rest of traffic. The government report on the Adelaide project, from transportation chief Stephen Buckley, suggested the city would use “flexi-posts.”
But there were no posts of any kind when the eastbound Adelaide lane opened with fanfare last week, nor any other physical barrier. Cyclists are kept apart from motorized vehicles only by white lines painted on the road and a metre-wide buffer zone.
Advocacy group Cycle Toronto demanded Wednesday that city transportation officials comply with council’s directive. Buckley rejected the group’s concerns.
Buckley acknowledged that the current lane is probably best defined as a “buffered bike lane,” not the cycle track council voted for. But he noted that council also “voted for a pilot.”
In a pilot project, he said, his department has the flexibility to experiment and see what works. He said he has asked his staff to “play with some things” and closely monitor the results.
“There’s folks out there that — they want what they want. And they have in their mind what they want. And I’ll say I think that the folks should trust the civil servants that are working on this, and let us sort of try new things. Which is the whole point of doing a pilot,” Buckley said.
Jared Kolb, Cycle Toronto’s executive director, said council did not give Buckley the freedom to decide whether or not to erect a physical barrier. Council’s language, he said, is “very clear”: the city is to create a separated lane.
Short Bio: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/1...-transportation-manager-on-easing-congestion/
The City of Toronto has poached another American bureaucrat to fill a top civic position. Stephen Buckley, the new general manager of transportation services, hails from Philadelphia, where he is the Deputy Commissioner for Transportation and the Director of Policy Planning in the Office of Transportation Services. He starts in Toronto on Dec. 3.
Toronto’s council voted 39-0 in June to install a “cycle track” on downtown Adelaide St. W. as part of a pilot project.
The city did not build a cycle track.
A cycle track is a bike lane physically separated from the rest of traffic. The government report on the Adelaide project, from transportation chief Stephen Buckley, suggested the city would use “flexi-posts.”
But there were no posts of any kind when the eastbound Adelaide lane opened with fanfare last week, nor any other physical barrier. Cyclists are kept apart from motorized vehicles only by white lines painted on the road and a metre-wide buffer zone.
Advocacy group Cycle Toronto demanded Wednesday that city transportation officials comply with council’s directive. Buckley rejected the group’s concerns.
Buckley acknowledged that the current lane is probably best defined as a “buffered bike lane,” not the cycle track council voted for. But he noted that council also “voted for a pilot.”
In a pilot project, he said, his department has the flexibility to experiment and see what works. He said he has asked his staff to “play with some things” and closely monitor the results.
“There’s folks out there that — they want what they want. And they have in their mind what they want. And I’ll say I think that the folks should trust the civil servants that are working on this, and let us sort of try new things. Which is the whole point of doing a pilot,” Buckley said.
Jared Kolb, Cycle Toronto’s executive director, said council did not give Buckley the freedom to decide whether or not to erect a physical barrier. Council’s language, he said, is “very clear”: the city is to create a separated lane.
Short Bio: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/1...-transportation-manager-on-easing-congestion/
The City of Toronto has poached another American bureaucrat to fill a top civic position. Stephen Buckley, the new general manager of transportation services, hails from Philadelphia, where he is the Deputy Commissioner for Transportation and the Director of Policy Planning in the Office of Transportation Services. He starts in Toronto on Dec. 3.