Sean Marshall from Walk Toronto, left, Keagan Gartz, Executive Director of Cycle Toronto, Gideon Forman from the David Suzuki Foundation and Jessica Spieker from Friends & Families for Safe Streets
Since the municipal election in 2014, Cycle Toronto has called for a grid of protected bike lanes across our city. In the time since then, we have had mixed success at City Council. We’ve made hard-won gains including protected bike lanes on Richmond and Adelaide, the approval of a 10-Year Cycling Network Plan, and permanent bike lanes on Bloor, but progress has been frustratingly slow.
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On October 22, 2018, Torontonians elected our Mayor and Councillors, who make crucial decisions affecting transportation in our city - including how we design our streets.
We collected responses to our three #BuildtheGrid questions, part of a 15-question #BuildtheVisionTO survey administered and analyzed by a coalition of road safety advocates.
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Bike lanes were installed on Woodbine Ave. in the summer of 2017. These lanes are an important north-south connection through East Toronto, with the closest parallel route being nearly two km to the west on Greenwood Ave. (and only extending north to the Danforth).
New data supporting the Woodbine bike lanes was released by the City's Public Consultation Unit on Friday Aug 17.
On October 22, 2018*, we will elect Toronto's Mayor and councillors, who make important decisions affecting transportation in our city.
