The plan to re-make Eglinton Ave. (both east and west) into a far, far better place had the Toronto Star’s Tess Kalinowski fairly swooning as she reported on a meeting at North Toronto Collegiate the other night. The drawings, which are lovely, have been circulated to BIAs and others for more than a year. They often came with a little questionnaire asking what one might like to see on the street — restricted bicycle lanes, non-restricted bicycle lanes — that sort of thing. Who knows exactly what the planners have concluded. Except that from the things mentioned at the North Toronto meeting, as reported by Kalinowski, the City may have to start making trees, benches, cars and bicycles out of silly putty. We’re are going to get, said Planner Matthew Gerry, buffered bike lanes, wider sidewalks, large tree pits, street furniture and parking lay-bys. (Parking lay-bys anyone?) All of this and four lanes of traffic. It’s many years off of course but to be fair to simple arithmetic, it seems like a stretch. Or maybe a squeeze. Toronto Star.New-era Eglinton may be a slight squeeze #TOpoli
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The plan to re-make Eglinton Ave. (both east and west) into a far, far better place had the Toronto Star’s Tess Kalinowski fairly swooning as she reported on a meeting at North Toronto Collegiate the other night. The drawings, which are lovely, have been circulated to BIAs and others for more than a year. They often came with a little questionnaire asking what one might like to see on the street — restricted bicycle lanes, non-restricted bicycle lanes — that sort of thing. Who knows exactly what the planners have concluded. Except that from the things mentioned at the North Toronto meeting, as reported by Kalinowski, the City may have to start making trees, benches, cars and bicycles out of silly putty. We’re are going to get, said Planner Matthew Gerry, buffered bike lanes, wider sidewalks, large tree pits, street furniture and parking lay-bys. (Parking lay-bys anyone?) All of this and four lanes of traffic. It’s many years off of course but to be fair to simple arithmetic, it seems like a stretch. Or maybe a squeeze. Toronto Star.