We hopped on a Bixi bike yesterday to head to City Hall for the the Bike Union-organized Coldest Day of the Year Ride—on a day when the temperature wasn’t very cold for a Canadian winter at all. Even before we arrived, we were reveling in the fact that we wouldn’t have to “dock” the Bixi [...]

At 10:30 a.m., the intersection of Dundas Street and Sterling Road was a busy one. Eight men and women, wrapped tightly in winter clothes, rushed around in the bright sunshine, wielding paint rollers and cardboard stencils. Half an hour later, three police cruisers idled on Sterling, and the unorthodox road crew was nowhere to be [...]

Estimating turnouts at things like this is difficult to do and politically fraught, so let’s just say there were hundreds of cyclists—easily hundreds—at Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue this morning, there to ride in memory of Jenna Morrison, a cyclist killed one week ago today. At 7:30 a.m. Chloé Rosemarin, a cycling activist involved with [...]

RALLY: There’s an early-morning memorial bicycle rally and ride planned today in memory of Jenna Morrison, the cyclist who was struck and killed last week. Announced by the Toronto Cyclists Union and sponsored by ARC (Advocacy for Respect For Cyclists), the ride will wind its way through the west end to end up at the [...]

WHERE: Dundas Street West and Sterling Road WHEN: 10:45 a.m. Friday morning WHAT: In the spot where Jenna Morrison was killed on Monday—she on a bike, colliding with a truck on a road with no bike lanes—someone has, overnight, installed bike lane markings. Impromptu bike lanes have a bit of a history in Toronto, but [...]

It’s every cyclist’s worst nightmare: you come to an intersection alongside a gigantic truck, and as the light turns green, you both ease forward. But as you crank towards that first gear change, still wobbly as you gather momentum, the truck is already half its length into the intersection. It’s slowly turning right, directly into [...]

SPOTTED BY: Martin Reis WHERE: Dundas Street West at Sterling Road WHEN: 10 a.m. this morning WHAT: In the wake of the tragic death of a cyclist yesterday, in a collision with a five-tonne truck, a memorial has sprung up at Dundas and Sterling. We know now that the victim was Jenna Morrison, a 38-year-old [...]

On Thursday, Mike Layton tweeted that, as part of the new comprehensive streets bylaw [PDF] being proposed by the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, the City would basically make it illegal for anyone to lock their bike to anything other than an official bike post. This was quickly followed by some self-appointed sensible people pointing [...]

Undoubtedly, the first phase of the West Toronto Railpath has been a success. And the two councillors whose wards the linear park runs between will tell you as much. Councillor Gord Perks (Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park) praises the space as “beautiful and accessible,” and Councillor Ana Bailão (Ward 18, Davenport) says the project has connected [...]

SPOTTED BY: Flickr photographer ‘Xander @416cyclestyle WHERE: The streets of downtown Toronto, beginning at Trinity Bellwoods Park and ending at Grange Park. WHEN: Saturday, October 15 WHAT: The first—though we are pretty sure it won’t be the last—Tweed Ride Toronto took place this weekend, a local installment of the dressed-up rides that began in London [...]