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CONSULTATION ALERT!!! đź“Ż

The City of Toronto has released the dates for the Kingston Road Phase 2 public consultations! A virtual one will be held on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 PM while an in person one will be held on Monday, October 27 (6:00 - 8:30 PM) at R.H. King Academy (3800 St Clair Avenue East). The presentation materials are now up while you can submit your feedback until Monday, November 3.

www.toronto.ca

A Safer Kingston Road

Attend the public events on October 21 or 27 and complete the survey by November 3. View meeting materials in the Public Consultation tab below. The City of Toronto is proposing changes to approximately six kilometres of Kingston Road, from Cliffside Drive to Scarborough Golf Club Road. These...
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TwoWheelPoli said:
CONSULTATION ALERT!!! đź“Ż

The City of Toronto has released the dates for the Kingston Road Phase 2 public consultations! A virtual one will be held on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 PM while an in person one will be held on Monday, October 27 (6:00 - 8:30 PM) at R.H. King Academy (3800 St Clair Avenue East). The presentation materials are now up while you can submit your feedback until Monday, November 3.

www.toronto.ca

A Safer Kingston Road

Attend the public events on October 21 or 27 and complete the survey by November 3. View meeting materials in the Public Consultation tab below. The City of Toronto is proposing changes to approximately six kilometres of Kingston Road, from Cliffside Drive to Scarborough Golf Club Road. These...
www.toronto.ca www.toronto.ca
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Survey completed. :)

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The Ford government is restoring a lane of vehicle traffic along a short stretch of Bloor Street in Toronto’s west end, with construction expected to start in late October.

However, the reconfigured half-kilometre section between Resurrection Road and Clissold Street in Etobicoke will still include bike lanes, which the province said is “consistent” with the Ontario Superior Court’s ruling that barred any bike lane removals.

The construction will take out an existing concrete median to make space for two lanes of vehicle traffic in each direction, as well as the bike lanes on both sides of the road.

The government said the work is expected to start on or soon after Oct. 20.

“The work will include new protected bicycle lanes that are consistent with the City of Toronto’s design standards, including precast barrier curbs and bollards that will separate the lane from vehicle traffic, along with a restored lane of vehicle traffic,” Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said in a statement.

In April, the courts slapped an injunction on the Ford government’s bike lane removal plan, which was later upheld on appeal. The province then took its legal battle a step further to the Court of Appeal, though that case hasn’t started.

“We firmly believe it is the democratically elected legislature that should be making decisions about how best to get traffic moving,” Sarkaria said on Thursday.

Thursday’s announcement is the first step in the government’s ongoing quest to restore vehicle lanes on roads with bike lanes through Bill 212. Through the course of its so-far-unsuccessful legal defence, the government has softened its language from vowing to remove bike lanes to “reconfiguring” them to allow for more vehicle traffic.

The judge who slapped down the province’s defence found that to be a “distinction without a difference.”

Bill 212 gave Sarkaria the power to remove bike lanes on Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue, and required cities to get his approval before adding new ones.

Since then, the government has argued in court that changes to the bill no longer allow the minister to remove bike lanes outright. However, it has noted that he could still do so after passing a regulation.

This is a developing story. More to come.
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TwoWheelPoli said:
CONSULTATION ALERT!!! đź“Ż

The City of Toronto has released the dates for the Kingston Road Phase 2 public consultations! A virtual one will be held on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 PM while an in person one will be held on Monday, October 27 (6:00 - 8:30 PM) at R.H. King Academy (3800 St Clair Avenue East). The presentation materials are now up while you can submit your feedback until Monday, November 3.

www.toronto.ca

A Safer Kingston Road

Attend the public events on October 21 or 27 and complete the survey by November 3. View meeting materials in the Public Consultation tab below. The City of Toronto is proposing changes to approximately six kilometres of Kingston Road, from Cliffside Drive to Scarborough Golf Club Road. These...
www.toronto.ca www.toronto.ca
Click to expand...

Some additional detail by way of the information panels:

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A link to the full set of panels here:


The roll plans are here:


I'm going to put some thought into the above..........

I think the section near Clarence might have a bit more space to pinch.

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Items to consider: Minor pinch to existing median. Is 1.6M of concrete necessary beside the left hand turn lane when it has no landscaping and is not a pedestrian refuge island? The bulk of the 4.6M median should be retained as it has trees, options for narrowing are limited, however, its edged in concrete, somewhere in/around 0.3/0.4m wide, could that be reduced to 0.1?

As the south side illustrates, a buffer can be created with as little as 0.3M.

Alternatively, the curb lane here is 3.3M. There is a compelling argument for that in general, but in this case, the lane is coming to an end with a forced right, could we pinch it down to 0.3M? Things over which to ponder.

@TwinHuey is duly flagged.
 
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