Northern Light
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A bit more, this is from the Don Mills Crossing Mobility Plan (2019)
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Northern Light
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Getting warmer, LOL
Don Mills Regeneration Area Study (2025)
Don Mills Regeneration Area Study (2025)
innsertnamehere
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The City of Hamilton is consulting on the redesign of Aberdeen Avenue - including a proposed reduction from 4 lanes to 2 and the introduction of a new cycling path. Notably this clearly violates provincial legislation. Two of the options have the cycling path on only one block of the reconstruction, but one proposes it across the entire scope:
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Aberdeen Avenue and Dundurn Street South Reconstruction
The City of Hamilton is launching a major infrastructure renewal project to reconstruct Aberdeen Avenue (Queen Street South to Studholme Road) and Dundurn Street South (Aberdeen Avenue to Stanley Avenue), with some minor road rehabilitation from Stanley Avenue to Hill Street. The purpose of this...
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evandyk
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A couple of months is normal for an appeal decision, but it's not quite as simple as that. If once the judges have heard the case there are any differences of opinion between them, there can be a lengthy process of drafts flying back and forth between them seeking a compromise resolution, or a judge deciding to draft a dissent, or any number of reasons why despite a commitment to a swift ruling, that might not actually happen.
TwoWheelPoli
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The City of Toronto is reviewing a long list of options for the Eglinton & Allen Intersection Study. Attend the public drop-in event on Saturday, May 30 (12-3 PM) at Fairbank Public School, or Tuesday, June 2 (6-9 PM) at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. You can also complete the survey by Sunday, June 14.
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Upon reviewing the slide deck, I am not keen on how most of the options appear to be car oriented. One in particular - closing off access to the Allen - sounds interesting, but expect the carbrains to explode over that one.
Eglinton & Allen Intersection Study
Attend the public drop-in event on Saturday, May 30, 12 to 3 p.m. at Fairbank Public School, or Tuesday, June 2, 6 to 9 p.m. at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. Take the survey and leave comments on the map before June 14, and review materials in the Public Consultation tab below. The City of...
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Upon reviewing the slide deck, I am not keen on how most of the options appear to be car oriented. One in particular - closing off access to the Allen - sounds interesting, but expect the carbrains to explode over that one.
Northern Light
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The City of Toronto is reviewing a long list of options for the Eglinton & Allen Intersection Study. Attend the public drop-in event on Saturday, May 30 (12-3 PM) at Fairbank Public School, or Tuesday, June 2 (6-9 PM) at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. You can also complete the survey by Sunday, June 14.
Eglinton & Allen Intersection Study
Attend the public drop-in event on Saturday, May 30, 12 to 3 p.m. at Fairbank Public School, or Tuesday, June 2, 6 to 9 p.m. at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. Take the survey and leave comments on the map before June 14, and review materials in the Public Consultation tab below. The City of...
Upon reviewing the slide deck, I am not keen on how most of the options appear to be car oriented. One in particular - closing off access to the Allen - sounds interesting, but expect the carbrains to explode over that one.
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Love 7B; with 7A a close second. However, I'd be surprised to see them make it through the screening process, but I'd be happy to be wrong about that.
Not listed, are my proposed changes at Lawrence (remove on ramp from Lawrence to Allen SB, remove NB off ramp to Lawrence.
Its true, these don't directly affect the Eglinton interchange, however, what they should do, other than help Lawrence alot is begin the process of reducing volume at the Eglinton interchange. It allows you at low cost, to test what happens when you force some people to choose alternate routes.
You can then inch this further along, by removing a single lane NB to Lawrence just with jersey barriers. See what happens, if that goes well you shutter the NB side to Lawrence. Then you pinch 1 SB lane, then you shutter the Allen south of Lawrence entirely.
Then we can do something huge. Build a tunnel over the tracks (or retaining walls around them); back fill the Allen to grade, and you can create large linear park space with multi-use trail on one side, or both and then incorporate the remaining land into new affordable housing, and/or new local roads as required.
TwoWheelPoli
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The limited scope of these projects is something that has long frustrated me as well, but certainly agree on removing those Lawrence-Allen ramps you mentioned.
For those who are passionate about completing the Waterfront Trail in Scarborough, I created a new thread for the Scarborough Bluffs West Project, but will include the June 1 public consultation details here.
To distinguish from the Scarborough Waterfront Project which covers the Scarborough Bluffs to East Point Park, here's a new thread focused on the Scarborough Bluffs West Project from Balmy Beach to the Scarborough Bluffs.
The third round of public consultations - and the first since the environmental assessment was launched - will be held on Monday, June 1 (5:30 - 8:30 PM) at Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute (3663 Danforth Avenue).
The public consultation materials will become available on Tuesday, May 26 at the website linked below and the survey will be open from then until Tuesday, June 30. The public consultation notice can be found below.
Scarborough Bluffs West Project: Eastern Beaches to Bluffer's Park
Attend the public drop-in event on Monday, June 1. Starting May 26, view meeting materials in Public Consultation tab below and complete survey before June 30. The Scarborough Bluffs West Project will explore the enhancement and protection of sensitive shoreline and natural areas and...
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innsertnamehere
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I actually agree with closing the south half of the Lawrence interchange - it reduces volumes slightly at Eglinton and would allow for a reconfiguration of the Lawrence interchange to better serve the dominant traffic movement to/from the Allen northbound. You could install double left turns lanes on Lawrence onto the NB Allen, for example, and would allow a rephasing of the signals to prioritize the main vehicle movements.
Closing the Eglinton ramps at the Allen does not fly with me at all though.
Honestly I'm fine with closing northside pedestrian crossings and forcing pedestrians to use the tunnel, as that's where 70-80% of pedestrians on the north side are going anyway already. There aren't a lot of pedestrians crossing the Allen not accessing the subway.
I personally like 3b the most of the options presented - I do wish they would introduce a third off-bound lane as well though to improve throughput on the off-ramp from the Allen.
Northern Light
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The thing I like about my ramps idea, if that for every driver it inconveniences, there are more that it benefits. Lawrence would operate much more smoothly for all road users (pedestrians, cyclists, transit and cars); and lower volumes/fewer turns on Eglinton would help there as well.
This has the virtue of making friends across different user types and singling out a relatively small niche (people who use the Allen only to get from Eglinton to Lawrence or vice versa) to the benefit of a much larger group.
It also helps set up future removal of the Allen with a boil the frog slowly strategy.
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generalcanada
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Im too much of a pessimist to believe this is realistic. When drivers realize they will lose access to the allen from eglinton they are going to have an even bigger fit than the bloor west guys did.
Id love it but....
Id love it but....
Mihairokov
Senior Member
It's funny because if you look at the streetview SB on the Allen there's usually traffic backed up. In 2025 it's backed up to Ridelle and in 2014 it's beyond that.
In the event that they choose 7B and close Allen b/w Eglinton and Lawrence the next logical question is: what does Allen provide b/w 401 and Lawrence? What would a reconfigured 401/Allen interchange look like if it's only Allen North of the 401 remaining? What happens with Yorkdale Mall and Baycrest Park if Allen were removed? Would you replace Allen with Yorkdale Road south of 401? Lots of different questions to ask, but they only start with one of the 7 options above. I think we all know that the Allen/Eglinton interchange is untenable in its current state.
txlseries4
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There's no way they actually consider 7a/b (closing Allen Road from Eglinton to Lawrence), right? I'm skeptical there's the political willpower to do this and I can see the Premier making a ton of noise about the issue and declaring Toronto as the worst villain of all time ever that's waging a war on cars.
I wonder how much 7 a/b is there to soften the drastic nature of the other considerations.
I wonder how much 7 a/b is there to soften the drastic nature of the other considerations.
Andy_in_Toronto
Active Member
Signs of activity on Portland St to finally implement cycle tracks before the FIFA city construction pause phase.
I was writing daily emails to get this pushed forward. Glad to see progress. Will report the next days.
Full Metal Junkie
Senior Member
Another week, another 37.5K on the counter!
And 25K of that came over the long weekend. Whoa
GabrielHurl
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ABC Toronto back out again calling for the University bike lanes to be removed and posting AI slop as they do
