innsertnamehere
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Black Creek Drive is intended to basically be a freeway in how it operates minus the interchanges so it's not a surprise, nor do I think permitting pedestrians on it is really necessary.
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Admiral Beez
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My hope is that Regent Park's final phases get it right on Gerrard between River and Parliament. It's a busy bike corridor where cars pass inches away from cyclists as both try to navigate past streetcars. However there’s no sign that the south curb is being cut back during the construction at the corner of Gerrard and Parliament.
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Toronto1834
Active Member
So Hoskin/Harbord is ridable and pretty much complete from Queen's Park to Grace with poured in place curbs, but I noticed that wherever there is street parking adjacent to the cycling lane, the curb is flush with the asphalt which means no physical separation between bikes and cars. Why would they do that?
evandyk
Senior Member
We rode quite a stretch of the Bloor and University lanes today with our six year old. It was almost entirely pleasant and safe. Just a few cars in the bike lane, but one of them was a Bike Share van! WTF? Couldn't pull into the side street?
pawlyshyn
New Member
Especially the entire block westbound in front of Harbord Collegiate. I guess that's so school buses can pull right in and park on the bike lane.
Plus there's a block eastbound, east of Grace, where's there's NOTHING — not even a painted line (last time I checked, anyway). The plans show separation there, but there's none. Did they just forget?
Admiral Beez
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The fix is clear.
www.thestar.com
Paywall free: https://archive.is/RX4z6
Starting Jan 1, 2026, Queen’s Park should outlaw province-wide the use, sale and ownership of all unlicensed e-motorized bikes beyond solely pedal assist models. All remaining e-motor bikes should be treated like gas-powered mopeds or motorcycles, with the province requiring licensing and insurance, and proper use of the roads - and prohibiting their transport on the GO Train or public transit (too bad, UberEats et al). That’s exactly what Finland does, for example, where any ebike capable of running without pedalling and anything faster than 25 kph is treated as a motor vehicle, and must be registered, licensed and insured. I believe Switzerland is similar.
We’d still need to separately address or set regs and apply actual enforcement for electric kick scooters. But as they say on the Riverbank, that’s another story.
How e-bikes came to rule the road in Toronto — and who’s really paying the price
The use of e-bikes has skyrocketed in recent years, catching governments flat-footed — and outraging other road users.
www.thestar.com
Starting Jan 1, 2026, Queen’s Park should outlaw province-wide the use, sale and ownership of all unlicensed e-motorized bikes beyond solely pedal assist models. All remaining e-motor bikes should be treated like gas-powered mopeds or motorcycles, with the province requiring licensing and insurance, and proper use of the roads - and prohibiting their transport on the GO Train or public transit (too bad, UberEats et al). That’s exactly what Finland does, for example, where any ebike capable of running without pedalling and anything faster than 25 kph is treated as a motor vehicle, and must be registered, licensed and insured. I believe Switzerland is similar.
We’d still need to separately address or set regs and apply actual enforcement for electric kick scooters. But as they say on the Riverbank, that’s another story.
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afransen
Senior Member
I think throttle-only operation is fine under maybe 10 kph, but anything over that should be pedal assist only.The fix is clear.
Paywall free: https://archive.is/RX4z6How e-bikes came to rule the road in Toronto — and who’s really paying the price
The use of e-bikes has skyrocketed in recent years, catching governments flat-footed — and outraging other road users.
Starting Jan 1, 2026, Queen’s Park should outlaw province-wide the use, sale and ownership of all unlicensed e-motorized bikes beyond solely pedal assist models. All remaining e-motor bikes should be treated like gas-powered mopeds or motorcycles, with the province requiring licensing and insurance, and proper use of the roads - and prohibiting their transport on the GO Train or public transit (too bad, UberEats et al). That’s exactly what Finland does, for example, where any ebike capable of running without pedalling and anything faster than 25 kph is treated as a motor vehicle, and must be registered, licensed and insured. I believe Switzerland is similar.
We’d still need to separately address or set regs and apply actual enforcement for electric kick scooters. But as they say on the Riverbank, that’s another story.
DSCToronto
Superstar
Whatever the limits are they should be clear and easy to enforce.
Mihairokov
Active Member
New Esplanade bike lane separators with diverted marathon traffic going straight through a no-straight 
DSCToronto
Superstar
The Esplanade has been semi-officially open for two-way traffic several times recently when Lower Jarvis or Lower Sherbourne have been closed for Ontario Line bridgework and it is not unreasonable to do this when the marathon is going on as very few north-south streets are open and to reach them from south of Front the Esplanade can be the only way..New Esplanade bike lane separators with diverted marathon traffic going straight through a no-straight
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Northern Light
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The answer is accessibility.
The concrete curbs were seen as an impediment not only to those w/mobility aids/challenges, but to those trying to load/unload strollers w/children.
For clarity, the City was responding to negative feedback in relation to the above.