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Thursday, July 14, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
City votes to scrap some downtown bike lanes
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Jarvis project cost $59,000 just a year ago Flashpoint between cyclists, drivers
The Mayor Rob Ford administration has rolled over Toronto cycling advocates, handing them a pricey bike-lane plan it insists will make them safer. City council voted 28-9 yesterday to spend $410,000 to erase the year-old, two-kilometre bike lanes on Jarvis Street, as well as lanes on Birchmount Road and Pharmacy Avenue in Scarborough. The same vote approved Ford ally Denzil Minnan-Wong’s plan for a 14-kilometre network of physically separated bike lanes on four downtown streets, and asked staff to try to avoid erasing the Jarvis lanes before cyclists have the alternative of a protected lane on nearby Sherbourne Street. A council chamber gallery full of cyclists bemoaned losing any of Toronto’s hard-won 174 kilometres of lanes. The protected lanes will be a first for Toronto but most will probably go on streets that already have
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“(Cyclists on Jarvis) will still be there. They will just no longer be safe.” COUN. KRISTYN WONG-TAM, WHOSE WARD INCLUDES JARVIS
painted lanes. Yesterday’s vote — sacrificing Jarvis, Birchmount (2.5 kilometres) and Pharmacy (3.4 kilometres), while adding Dawes Road (2 kilometres) — might shrink the overall network. “We haven’t given up on Jarvis,” said Dave Meslin, a community activist who urged fellow cyclists to converge on city hall for the vote. “Cyclists depend on those lanes for safety, and we’ll keep fighting to defend them.” Minnan-Wong surprised colleague Kristyn Wong-Tam, whose ward includes Jarvis, yesterday with a successful motion to reinstall on Jarvis a centre lane that reverses direction depending on the time of day. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Cyclists on Jarvis approach Bloor Street yesterday on their way to city hall to protest the city’s decision to remove some downtown bike lanes. Inset: Shawnte Clow says she was sideswiped by a car on Queen Street East while cycling to city hall to join the protest. Queen Street East doesn’t have a bike lane. MICHAEL WOODS/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE