Results tagged “bikes”

At 7:46 Monday morning, Torontoist received a release from press@ttc.ca, headed "TTC launches the 'WARM WELCOME' campaign":

KIDS: Script Superheroes, a six-week writing workshop for seven- to ten-year-olds, starts today at the Comedy Bar. The afternoon workshops will teach your child how to write a powerful script, and how to impress an audience. At the end of the program, professional actors will step in to present a live reading of all the kids' plays. Script Superheroes is taught by character comedian Kristen McGregor and artist/writer/former Torontoist editor Alison Broverman. The Comedy Bar (945 Bloor Street West), 2:30–3:45 p.m., $100/6 sessions.

Photo by Marc Lostracco from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

In order to more accurately reflect the values of German youth, MTV Germany altered the hit TV show Pimp My Car to Pimp My Bike. Toronto's own Corwyn Lund has pimped a bike so hard, he's gonna head up bike pimping operations for MTV World. Well, maybe one day he will. But for now, he is delivering missives and enunciations to the citizens of Toronto with this luminous bike – but only on Mondays.

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year!

Torontoist is kicking himself for missing this article but we're glad that the eagle-eyed people at Spacing Wire caught it. Actor, sometime mayoral candidate and now Globe and Mail writer Albert Howell wrote this reasoned analysis on why cyclists ride on sidewalks and why pedestrians shouldn't be blaming cyclists but the municipal government for its lack of adequate cycling infrastructure.

With the temperature inching just above freezing this weekend Torontoist might just have to bring out our bike. We miss riding it around town, dodging cabbies, avoiding horse crap (if you're Matt B.) and just feeling the cold Toronto air in our freezing faces. Ah, bike-riding in Winter.

Don't you dare walk out that door! At least until you check to see if a bike is coming along side your car. That's right; the collision that occurs between a driver or passenger's open car door and a moving cyclist (called a "door prize") is the number one cause of car-bike collisions in the downtown core. This contributes to an already turbulent relationship between the city's cyclists and motorists, as the cyclist will either swerve into traffic to avoid the door, or just splonk right into it. City Councillor and avid bike dude Adam Giambrone, who is also Chair of the Toronto Cycling Committee, will launch the 2005 Watch for Bikes campaign with the city-wide distribution of 150,000 new side view mirror decals and "door prize" cards. Get yours at Mountain Equipment Co-op (400 King St W) at 10 am.

Martino Reis, one of Toronto's embattled cyclists, pointed us to Rutgers University professor Philip Pucher's paper on cycling trends and policies in six of Canada's cities.