On Tuesday, the Ford government was expected to start removal of the Bloor bike lanes from Clissold to Royal York, while the firms identified with the work include Verdi Alliance Civil and ATS Traffic per a call to action I issued yesterday. I took the subway right after work on Tuesday night to witness the hundreds of cyclists who came out to protest the removals with the parking lot at Tom Riley Park being used as an organizing base.
Last night, hundreds of cyclists and other supporters gathered on Bloor Street in Etobicoke to protest the bike lane removals. While you can read about the protest here as well as on Jun's blog, I have a call to action for the cycling community.
Back in August, I checked out the Bartley Smith Greenway in Vaughan and looked into how it would fit within the larger Vaughan Super Trail initiative. However, there is one other existing trail that would form part of that Super Trail which is the William Granger Greenway (a.k.a. Humber River Trail). I used my day off yesterday to explore that trail as well as how it could connect with Toronto’s portion of the Humber River Trail.
Earlier today, Community Bikeways hosted their third Loop Trail ride to promote the need to fill in the ten gaps along the trail. (you can read about the previous ride here) This edition was joined by a sister ride organized by Misha Perozak of the Scarborough Junction Community which called for the building of the West Scarborough Rail Trail from Warden to Kennedy Stations. About 40 people – myself included – started from the Distillery District while the Scarborough ride – which Jun wrote about on his blog – started at Warden Hilltop Community Centre and brought in a similar number if not more.
Last year was the first time I joined The Driveside for their annual Scarborough South Loop ride which saw some Waterfront gravel riding, a steep downhill at Gates Gully, and the Highland Creek Trail. It was refreshingly different from some of the other group rides I did at the time. Today marked the 5th annual version of their ride which Helen came along as well, so we brought our bikes on the GO train to Guildwood Station.
Back in June, I finally got to join Dismount Bike Shop for their Wednesday evening social rides. At the time, I appreciated the reasonably quick pace and riding on some gravel trails such as the Cedarvale Ravine. For this past Wednesday's ride, we skipped the gravel but did bike along the West Toronto Railpath and through High Park.
Good evening! Hope you have been getting some riding in during the Labour Day long weekend! Given it had been almost a year since I last checked out The Meadoway and there have been a few new developments, I decided to check it out this afternoon.
