Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

[Northern Light]

Working full out, I see! I assume there is now zero chance of paving until it warms up again next year. This really has been a totally mis-managed project.

If this is still Grascan's the current project manager for the City needs to be on the phone every damned day to their counterpart to convey the need for 15+ people on site and a 7-day work schedule.

If that's not met with an appropriate response, then the Mayor needs to speak with their CEO about their future with City contracts.

 

[DSCToronto]

If this is still Grascan's the current project manager for the City needs to be on the phone every damned day to their counterpart convey the need for 15+ people on site and a 7-day work schedule.

If that's not met with an appropriate response, then the Mayor needs to speak with their CEO about their future with City contracts.

Dream on!

 

[GameOnBrad]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but many decades ago, I thought these older stairs had a "channel" (gutter) that you could put your bike wheels in to smoothly walk your bike down the stairs. I guess they don't do that anymore? or, maybe it was just something I started doing when I saw it.

 

[Northern Light]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but many decades ago, I thought these older stairs had a "channel" that you could put your bike wheels in to smoothly walk your bike down the stairs. I guess they don't do that anymore? or, maybe it was just something I started doing when I saw it.

Which older stairs? There were never stairs from the Dundas bridge.

But certainly there are stairs in the City that have bike runnels (that's what the channel for the bike wheels are called).

 

[DSCToronto]

Which older stairs? There were never stairs from the Dundas bridge.

But certainly there are stairs in the City that have bike runnels (that's what the channel for the bike wheels are called).

It is also not clear, yet, if these will have runnels (thanks for the word!). Of course, they SHOULD have them but....

 

[Mihairokov]

But certainly there are stairs in the City that have bike runnels (that's what the channel for the bike wheels are called).

Maybe we're thinking about the Riverdale Park stairs

Can't help but look at the new stairs and wonder how difficult it will be to get a bike up and down. Looks like more twisting and turning than the Riverdale Park stairs above.

 

[GameOnBrad]

Maybe we're thinking about the Riverdale Park stairs
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Can't help but look at the new stairs and wonder how difficult it will be to get a bike up and down. Looks like more twisting and turning than the Riverdale Park stairs above.

Yep, That! I used to always tuck my wheels in those gutters when using the stairs, wherever I found them in the city.

I'm just thinking that these new stairs on the Dundas Bridge/Don River don't have them (by default anyway) and if this is a new template for stairs down to trails... well. I guess I shall see once the railings go in.

 

[generalcanada]

also the one at the new Loblaws at lakeshore and bathurst has the bike runnels

 

[pawlyshyn]

also the one at the new Loblaws at lakeshore and bathurst has the bike runnels

You can use runnels to bring your bike into the Loblaws?

 

[max]

Mid-Humber Gap is at council today. The Weston Golf Club has helpfully provided the following graphic:

I for one would like to thank them for their attention to this matter and implore all of you to please stay off of the proposed path when any hurricane force winds roll through Toronto. Don't forget, Hurricane Time is when our phones sound off that crazy alarm!

Source: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/115544365648769048

 

[Northern Light]

Mid-Humber Gap is at council today. The Weston Golf Club has helpfully provided the following graphic:

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I for one would like to thank them for their attention to this matter and implore all of you to please stay off of the proposed path when any hurricane force winds roll through Toronto. Don't forget, Hurricane Time is when our phones sound off that crazy alarm!

Source: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/115544365648769048

The Letter from the Golf Club with that image can be found here:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/gg/comm/communicationfile-197160.pdf

The letter appears to confuse bike path with 'Structure or Building' in respect of floodplain regulation.

 

[Northern Light]

Councillor Holyday....who else..made a motion to defer the expropriation while the Golf Course latest stall tactic is reviewed.

It initially lost 5-20.... with Councillor Fletcher accidentally voting the wrong way........again, LOL.......how many cycling facility vote accidents can one have?

The vote was redone with the result 4-21

****

That dispensed with, the expropriation passes 23-2

 

[JasonParis]

I think runnels are added after the stairway is largely completed.

 

[Mind_the_gap]

Way after the last post, but fascinating thread. I was a kid in Don Mills during this time period. My father learned to ski at that ski hill. The lessons were at night.

^ I recently came across this thread...

I've seriously been wondering what Woodbine Avenue used to look like before the DVP? I've looked for maps - found nothing proper.

I was an avid cyclist in the early 2010s, and always wondered what the purpose of this clear two-lane roadway had been prior:

Just north of Pottery Road.

Ps. An utterly fascinating thread!

AFAIK: Woodbine used to extend South to York Mills, and there was a train station there on the Bala sub at the former junction.

Mods please move this if approriate.

This history behind roads in the Don Valley I find just as fascinating as Hurricane Hazel in 1954 in Amesbury - only the abutments remain(ed) where people once lived.

 

[Milaisacat]

^ I recently came across this thread...

I've seriously been wondering what Woodbine Avenue used to look like before the DVP? I've looked for maps - found nothing proper.

I was an avid cyclist in the early 2010s, and always wondered what the purpose of this clear two-lane roadway had been prior:
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Just north of Pottery Road.

Ps. An utterly fascinating thread!

AFAIK: Woodbine used to extend South to York Mills, and there was a train station there on the Bala sub at the former junction.

Mods please move this if approriate.

This history behind roads in the Don Valley I find just as fascinating as Hurricane Hazel in 1954 in Amesbury - only the abutments remain(ed) where people once lived.

At one time there were two railway ROWs beside each other on the west side of the Don. One was something like the Toronto Belt Line Railway (local line) while the other was what would ultimately become the CPR. To my knowledge, the Toronto Belt Line Railway later became Bayview Avenue. Perhaps part of this former ROW also became the road to which you are referring?