WillTo
Senior Member
What happens to these signals on Eglinton already installed?
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What happens to these signals on Eglinton already installed?
TwoWheelPoli
Active Member
The Toronto Star published Andy Takagi's take on the scrapping of the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project.
www.thestar.com
How the Crosstown LRT helped kill the city’s decade-long plan for a bike lane along Eglinton Avenue
Initially proposed in 2014, a complete cycling corridor along Eglinton Avenue will now not be built.
www.thestar.com
Andy_in_Toronto
Active Member
More progress on Portland St. bikeways installation. The traffic filter is about to be set up. Uber drivers are already complaining. Excellent!
The work on the last unpainted stretches will continue Sunday night. The concrete barriers will come in next week.
Metrolinx as usual tried to make this difficult. They tried to block the implementation. Pretending they need all city streets. One small stretch on Portland won’t have barriers installed until September. Crazy!
generalcanada
Senior Member
so its going to run with the plastic bollards until september?
UntitledCyclist
Active Member
I have always assumed this to be true, but thank you for verifying it. Even using AI to write up something is probably better, though I don't know by how much...
UntitledCyclist
Active Member
There is no "take" there. It's just a very thin write up that adds little if anything from Toronto Today's more rapid reporting. Glad they did it, but we need a deeper investigation or at least a scathing op-ed by Matt Elliott or something.The Toronto Star published Andy Takagi's take on the scrapping of the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project.
How the Crosstown LRT helped kill the city’s decade-long plan for a bike lane along Eglinton Avenue
Initially proposed in 2014, a complete cycling corridor along Eglinton Avenue will now not be built.
Also, Jacquelyn Hayward, former cycling manager and rapid bureaucracy climber is really earning her $230K a year with that "statement." No one granting interviews or properly assigning blame. The city way.
UntitledCyclist
Active Member
Those aren't bike signals. Not sure what they are honestly. There are bagged up signal lights like that all over the city that often remain that way for years.
Northern Light
Superstar
Err, not all that rapid, she's been sitting in that Director's chair for almost a decade now.....
PS, check your messages.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
This of course completely ignores that if the City actually stuck to the plan originally approved in 2014, they could install bike lanes in compliance with provincial regulations. It's only more recently that they decided that they wanted to cut Eglinton down to 2 lanes.. the 2014 plan (and the one which Metrolinx constructed over the stations) retains a 4-lane cross section.The Toronto Star published Andy Takagi's take on the scrapping of the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project.
How the Crosstown LRT helped kill the city’s decade-long plan for a bike lane along Eglinton Avenue
Initially proposed in 2014, a complete cycling corridor along Eglinton Avenue will now not be built.
The solution is simple here.. just go back to the 2014 plan.
Northern Light
Superstar
txlseries4
Active Member
Okay everyone, we can all feel better about bike lanes in Toronto now. Bike lane "renewal" in Stockholm (old streetview):
From here
From here
innsertnamehere
Superstar
The parts planned for 3-lanes in the 2014 plan have already been built out as such, IIRC. The 2014 plan had it 3-lanes from Mount Pleasant to Avenue Road from what I recall, which has already been done as such (Metrolinx did the Yonge to Avenue section).
The City through "EglintonTOday" cheaped out, not wanting to do a full road reconstruction, and decided to shift to a plan where Eglinton would be reduced to 3 lanes from Mount Pleasant to Spadina Rd as well as from Oakwood to west of Keele Street.
Frankietls
Active Member
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TwoWheelPoli
Active Member
Want to show your support for the cancelled Eglinton Complete Street? Cycle Toronto will be hosting a Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux on Tuesday, June 2 (6 PM) at Eglinton and Holly followed by the Eglinton & Allen Intersection Study consultation. Please spread the word.
www.cycleto.ca
Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux
www.cycleto.ca
pawlyshyn
New Member
Since when does Metrolinx have any say about a city street like Portland?