Archive for the 'Getting around the City' Category
Downtown Toronto: The Difference Between Cyclists and Bicycle Couriers…
September 3rd, 2009 categories: Around TORONTO, Downtown Toronto, Getting around the City, Lifestyle, Toronto
Over the past few days there has been lots of sadness and anger from the Car and Bicycle community over Monday night’s altercation that ended in the death of a bicycle courier.
It is hard to forget the personalities involved, who they were, what they did and what would have lead to this horrible result. Yes, this City was built mostly for cars and we now have a strong movement to make the streets more bicycle friendly.
I don’t cycle anymore because it is dangerous out there on the City streets. I have had too many friends who have been hurt riding bikes when there were no cars around. The roads are in worse shape then they have ever been and the Trolley tracks make cycling in Toronto an event more like the “Tour de France”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Should Toronto City Workers Be Residents of Toronto?
July 11th, 2009 categories: Around TORONTO, Getting around the City, Toronto
I wonder if we would be moving in to the fourth week of the Toronto City Worker’s Strike if all City workers had to be residents of the City of Toronto. If they all had the same services…or lack of…and also paid the ever-rising taxes of a City in deficit, maybe they would be less likely to strike or be more willing to settle. It should be a condition of employment that any City of Toronto employee have to reside within the City limits and pay their taxes here. Read the rest of this entry »
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Toronto Moves Towards a Strike.
June 21st, 2009 categories: Around TORONTO, Getting around the City, Toronto
As we march towards a CUPE strike of City workers, here are my thoughts. It will be interesting to see what transpires as the days pass:
- I think that what the City workers are asking for and have been getting is unrealistic. Banked sick days, whether the economy is good or bad, is an exceptional BENEFIT, that does not appear in the private sector without bankrupting the Corporation. It is time to let that one go. It is not a RIGHT, it is a BENEFIT. Read the rest of this entry »
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Common Sense is missed at City Council
May 26th, 2009 categories: Getting around the City, Real Estate, Toronto
Mayor Miller keeps trying to re-invent Toronto as a Bike Friendly City…he forgets that 4 or 5 months of the year it is not prudent to drive a Bicycle. It is called WINTER! Let’s have Bike month in January or February and see what support he gets. Until then we need to focus attention in rapid transit that is available 12 months a year.
Last night the City voted to close one lane of Jarvis Street to Cars and make Jarvis Street more Bike friendly. How about spending that money fixing some of the existing roadways that are potholed? It is all gamesmen-ship at City Hall and the homeowner and car owner are losing…with David Miller as Mayor, get used to more of it! Maybe if we created a Homeowner and Car owner Union we would have more say at City Hall.
When are we going to get angry enough?? Note the photo Mayor Miller and Mr. Rae? It is called WINTER.
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Toronto’s Second Season
May 22nd, 2009 categories: Downtown Toronto, Getting around the City, Toronto
For years I have jokingly said that Toronto has two seasons: Winter and Construction… As my car sat in traffic yesterday, I had lots of time to think about what could be done to alleviate the gridlock in the City.
First, I have never understood why Toronto stopped building Subways. Weeks ago I was in Chicago, was thrilled to be able to take a subway from Downtown to the Airport (avoiding Traffic jams), happy to view a labryinth of Subways in a City not much different than Toronto.
So here is what ticks me off. If Toronto is lacking in mass transport, which puts pressure on those of us living in Toronto, then this Mayor and his henchmen making it even more difficult to drive cars in the City only puts pressure on those of us who live here. They think that making it harder to get around by car in the City will deal with a traffic problem that is really created by the lack of infrastructure. The present infrastructure is pushed to the limits because of the major highways that surround the City and by a work force working in the City and paying taxes in the suburbs. Read the rest of this entry »
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Call for Entries Cabbagetown Nuit Blanche Proposals: February 18th, 2009
February 5th, 2009 categories: Cabbagetown, Getting around the City
There is a call for entries for February 18th for next falls (October 3, 2009) Nuit Blanche. I was out of town last year but heard that it was a great evening even though it went way past my bedtime!! For more information visit their web site .
Call for Entries Cabbagetown Nuit Blanche proposals:
Noon Wed. Feb 18th art installation proposals for one all night long Oct. 3rd Nuit Blanche event in Cabbagetown. Please forward Read the rest of this entry »
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My Favourite Time of Year!!! Winter…licious!!
January 27th, 2009 categories: Getting around the City
In reality…growing up in Edmonton was already “cruel and unusual punishment” when it comes to winter weather and although winter in Toronto is much milder than that part of Alberta, by mid-January I have had it. Whoever came up with the idea of Winterlicious should be given the key to the City of Toronto Read the rest of this entry »
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Biking in Downtown Toronto!!!
September 24th, 2008 categories: Getting around the City
We live in a great City for biking….I really should do more but I love walking…you get to see so much more… and that is the problem.
As I walk through the City though, I find myself getting angrier and angrier at the Bikers. First of all, I am walking on a sidewalk…not a sidebike. What are bikes doing on a sidewalk especially when they are adjacent to bike lanes? I live next to a street that has bike lanes on it, so what are bicycles doing zooming past me up on the sidewalk, going both ways with little or no respect for the walkers and runners that occupy the “sidewalk”.
It is then that I notice that the rolling racers are not wearing helmuts and that the Government only mandates those under 18 to do so. Yet, in this Province everyone sitting in a car must wear a seatbelt or you get a tagged…does that make any sense? Yesterday, on a very busy thoroughfare I saw a helmut-less mother with a matching helmut-less child in a jump seat behind her. Is it less money for the tax payer to pay for surgery on bikers than it is for car riders?? Read the rest of this entry »
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