
Bikes Lanes on Bloor and the Suburbs: On Dependency and Freedom from Cars
by Bernhard
Those of you who don’t live in Toronto are unaware, but a previously unfathomable thing came to pass on Wednesday. Toronto City Council voted in favour of a pilot project for bike lanes on one of Toronto’s major (if not the major) thoroughfares, Bloor Street. The rallying call of “Bike Lanes on Bloor” from cyclists over the last decade always struck me as mostly symbolic, if not a bit tongue-in-cheek. In car-centric Toronto, it just never seemed possible, no matter […]
Categories: Bicycles, Toronto, Transportation • Tags: bike lanes, suburbia, suburbs, Toronto