Re-cycling the meeting...

Cycling is in the news today, after city council decided to approve bike lanes for Jarvis.

As you know, lots of cyclists use Queens Quay as a route when they come into downtown. They may come east from the Beach or west from the Martin Goodman Trail. We came across this debrief from Adam Vaughan abut a cycling meeting held earlier this year. It's available here and mentions some of the key issues for our riding. You can read the whole thing here:

Thank you to those of you who were able to attend our first Ward 20 Cycling meeting! For those of you who weren't able to attend, over 25 residents from throughout the ward were present to share ideas on how to improve cycling in Ward 20 from the waterfront, north to Dupont.
Discussion included:
• the need for a safe east-west bike route throughout the city
• the desire for bike lanes on Bloor Street
• the need to better enforce the bylaw that prohibits cars from parking in bike lanes
• the desire for more bike paths or separated bike lanes, and the challenges involved in implementing them
• the need for bike routes and bike paths that connect to the waterfront to the rest of the city

The goal moving forward is to develop a set of priorities for the ward that the office and the community can work towards. To aid in this goal, it was decided that a number of working groups should be formed, including:
• a Ward 20 Cycling Steering Committee, made up of representatives from across the ward. The Steering Committee will hold regular meetings to provide Councillor Vaughan's office with feedback on cycling-related issues, projects and plans relevant to the ward
• a Bloor Street Working Group, which will help provide feedback on future transportation plans for the street
• a Ward 20 Waterfront Cycling Group, which will look at the need for bike lanes and bike routes to connect the waterfront to the north, the need to accommodate bike parking, and other initiatives.