A look at the collisions panel for meeting tells a very clear story:
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Circles are collisions; filled in, circles, fatalities. Very clear Burnamthorpe is THE big problem in this community. Other places to make improvements for sure. But to save lives and limbs.....that one is tops, 9 /13 collisions involving serious injury or death, both of the fatal ones.
The City did install bike lanes/cycle tracks on Burnhamthorpe west of Mill late last year, and did improve that intersection. But Burnamthorpe east of Mill has not been addressed as yet.
There are portions with excess width, but for the most part, insufficient room for cycling infra w/o removing lanes.
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This panel shows us where major road/sewer work is planned over the next few years. Burnamthorpe is not on that list, but Bloor west of West Mall is; and West Mall south of Bloor, so those roads are mandatory gets where feasible.
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These ones are both tough too. There just isn't much slack in terms of overly wide lanes or blvds to play with; it shows the importance of getting the provincial laws restricting bike lanes tossed/repealed.
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One small idea gets my attention, extending the formal, paved multi-use path down to Bloor here:
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(existing MUP in green)
Mill road also looks like an interesting option for a cycling facility, it typically runs 9-10m wide but with only 2 travel lanes. An on-road facility (w/o touching the blvds) would make no parking allowed, but on much of the road, that doesn't seem like it would be an issue.
The blvds themselves are quite wide, though exiting tree placement making poaching space awkward if you don't want to fell a lot of nice trees.
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