Saturday, June 25, 2011

Toronto - Where did all the lanes go?

As the new chair of a city council committee, hand-picked by Mayor Rob Ford, Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong confidently proposed a network of bike lanes physically separated from cars and trucks. It would, he said, make cycling in the city core safer and encourage more people to commute on two wheels instead of four.

Six months later, this bold plan appears to have vanished. Minnan-Wong’s works committee will consider a plan on Thursday that offers less — far less — than the vision he outlined in January.

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