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... the proposal is now to implement from Bloor southward only. North to Eglinton is not killed but is deferred.
Better than nothing, I suppose.

It might be a good idea to make additional use of the King St limited access to have new express bus routes using it and going up Bathurst and/or Dufferin, particularly during weekday rush hours or when some part of the subway lines in or near downtown are shut down.
... Dufferin and Bloor ... that intersection is a mess
Unfortunately the loading/unloading area for Dufferin station is immediately on the north side of Bloor, which could definitely use larger dedicated areas for that to allow at least three or more buses on each side at a time, and there is no room there to widen the road -- unless maybe there would be a plan to eventually expropriate and demolish several of the houses on the east side of the street. The west side is a Bell building.
During the CNE, they need to have a clearly separated designated boarding area for the non-stop CNE Express buses. As I've mentioned here before, every single time I've used it, despite the driver and other TTC employed people making it very clear to everyone boarding that the bus goes to the CNE without making any stops, at least one person and usually more will not listen or understand, ring the bell and then yell at the driver when the bus doesn't stop to let them off.
 
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I broadly agree. I didn't think the opposition on Dufferin north of Bloor was sufficient to warrant concessions there, but ...it is what it is.

On Bathurst, I previously conveyed that this might be the outcome here, not my preferred option, but I understood then and now why this might occur.

Not the hill to die on.........take the win south of Bloor and keep fighting the good fight for other similar projects. We still have Jane to get through in the near term, and several more to follow.
In all fairness, I did recall seeing on the Dufferin project materials that they were looking at the possibility of prioritizing the south of Bloor part even before all that baloney from "Protect Dufferin" and "Protect Bathurst" was thrown around. Still pretty disappointing nonetheless.
 
Worth noting the now dead Eglinton-Lakeshore plan was already a fragment of the original plans for bus lanes on Dufferin and Bathurst, both originally intended to have priority along the 29 and 7 buses entire lengths. Would have run from Wilson Station to King W on Dufferin and from Steeles to Lakeshore on Bathurst.

Report does not make it clear if the Bloor to Eglinton stretches will now be studied/consulted on independently or simply as a apart of the larger Bloor to Steeles/Wilson Stn stretches that will not be receiving bus lanes in the run up to FIFA 2026
 
Given the disappointment with city staff capitulating to the car-brains with RapidTO on Dufferin & Bathurst Streets (which will now only cover south of Bloor), I prepared an action alert my blog encouraging people to e-mail the Executive Committee by Tuesday, July 15 at 4:30 PM & sign the TTCriders campaign.

 
Given the disappointment with city staff capitulating to the car-brains with RapidTO on Dufferin & Bathurst Streets (which will now only cover south of Bloor), I prepared an action alert my blog encouraging people to e-mail the Executive Committee by Tuesday, July 15 at 4:30 PM & sign the TTCriders campaign.

Maybe time for reshuffling at the city staff level. Many of the city staff and/or managers seem to be automobile-addicted, hence the recommendation from city staff to reduce the RapidTO bus lanes.
 
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Pro-colonialism??

I think being "anti-dishonest renaming", perhaps could be seen as pro-colonialism. Maybe they are upset places like Villiers Island and Lower Coxwell got renamed with indigenous names.

One of the speakers, Daniel Tate, seems to be really upset about renaming of Dundas Square and that the statue of John A. MacDonald was covered up in a wooden enclosure.

So some of the views of at least one person speaking at this event organized by the so-called Toronto Concerned Citizens Coalition can potentially be construed as anti-Indigenous and perhaps pro-colonialism.

I am by no means an expert historian on Canadian History and treatment of the Indigenous population, it's certainly a complex than nuanced history

But in summary, this group is "concerned" about more than just bike lanes.

Basically the pro-colonialism is likely related to the other things the Toronto Concerned Citizens Coalition is upset about, not the bike and bus lanes.


The Downtown Concerned Citizens Organization, IntegrityTO and Protect Bathurst are teaming up for a July 15 press conference which will include expressing their opposition to bike lanes & TTC RapidTO bus priority lanes (among other matters).

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The Downtown Concerned Citizens Organization, IntegrityTO and Protect Bathurst are teaming up for a July 15 press conference which will include expressing their opposition to bike lanes & TTC RapidTO bus priority lanes (among other matters)...
Pro-colonialism??
Both groups come across as somewhat juvenile to me, in trying to demonize each other. And instead of discussing the individual issues, they dogmatically lump all kinds of their other unrelated supposedly ideological subjects into one agenda.
Hopefully most of us are independent grown adults who can understand and read about subjects on our own. Just because my opinion on bus lanes may or may not line up with yours, does not necessarily mean they must line up with all the others on your agenda.
 
DCCO really does stand for the omni-cause. Anything you can think of the city doing, they’re against it.
 
Toronto Region Board of Trade posted support for the projects north to Eglinton:
 

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