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Chris Siebenmann

My recreational bicycling club (TBN¹) is having our annual Spring Kickoff breakfast and rides this coming Saturday, May 10th at Etienne Brulé Park, on what the forecast says should be a great day. Since we're trying to recruit, attendance is free for non-members. They say 'register so we can plan food', but if past years are any guide there will be lots available, so you can just show up without much problems. For details, see tbn.ca/event-6101402

#BikeTO
¹ tbn.ca/

tbn.caThe Toronto Bicycling Network Inc. - 2025 Spring Kickoff Breakfast (Food Planning)TBN is the largest recreational cycling club in the GTA. TBN also organizes a variety of other activities including hiking, cross-country skiing, ice skating and weekend excursions.
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Cameron MacLeod

City of Toronto proposed "returning two car lanes to University Avenue near the city’s hospital row, narrowing the bike lanes and removing on-street parking."

I can't wait for the guaranteed next stage where car drivers suddenly claim that the on-street parking which takes up a lane is critical and must be retained.

globalnews.ca/news/11123382/on

Global News · Ontario open to compromise with Toronto on bike lane removalsBy The Canadian Press
#BikeTO#CycleTO#TOPoli
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Cameron MacLeod

Ford promised bike lane removals could happen today onward in TO (Bloor W, Yonge, & Uni). That means we’ve got to be vigilant & have our eyes open. If you see construction crews amassing to remove lanes, post/tag local cycling orgs & advocates. Send pictures. Be safe & don’t interfere.

If you see bike lanes being removed, please report it to
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @fridaysforfutureTO.bsky.social

Photo of construction digger ripping up a bike lane. Text reads: SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING If you see bike lanes being removed, please report it to @thebikinglawyer @cycletoronto @fridaysforfutureTO [on bluesky, not mstdn.ca (yet?)]
#bikeTO#cycleTO#TOPoli
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Jérôme

Obviously not everything is won. They might find another consulting firms that is less shameful. And #CycleToronto encourage us to email them so that they don't deliver the 1.5KM of scope they decided to keep.

But we are slowing the project, potentially saving lives and hopefully leaving more time for the courts to fight it.

It does set a precedent for other firms. Taking contract from the government doesn't mean it's ethical and you can get a PR nightmare out of it.

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Jérôme

Well that is interesting.

There was a public shaming campaign against #Stantec engineering firm because of their contract with the Ontario government to destroy our bike lanes in Toronto. There was protests at their office downtown Toronto + an email campaign by #CycleToronto

I personally sent 2 emails to their Media person, Colin Nekolaichuk

Well within Cycle Toronto newsletter, we learn that they gave up on the majority of the project (!!) and will only deliver a small part

It was with anger and outrage that we learned back in January that a Canadian engineering firm, Stantec, was partnering with the province in their scheme to rip out 19 kilometres of Toronto bike lanes. Stantec's involvement is a clear betrayal of their own stated corporate values and puts them at odds with the majority of transportation planning experts in the province including the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, Ontario Traffic Council, Ontario Professional Planners Institute, and Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. Over 2,300 letters from supporters like you were sent to senior Stantec executives urging them to rip up this agreement and cancel this contract. Over the ensuing weeks, sources quietly indicated that Stantec was getting cold feet and had reconsidered the extent of their involvement due to public outcry. Last week, in response to a protest organized by activists from Fridays for Future at Stantec’s Toronto offices, CBC reports that Stantec are on the record that they have reduced the scope of their work: The statement went on to say Stantec is working on developing technical drawings for “a small section” of the bike corridors, representing about 1.5 km in total. After those drawings are complete, the firm will no longer be involved, [Colin Nekolaichuk, a public relations manager for Stantec] said. That's still 1.5 kilometres too many. If you haven't already, email Stantec and say so:
#biketo
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Jérôme

As one protester was being released by police, he flashed an iron engineer’s ring on his pinky finger to a cheering crowd.

This is actually what I wrote in my email to Stantec last month. As engineers and people who went through the engineering oath, we have duty to safeguard the public. Destroying bike lanes without buildling alternate ones is the opposite of that.

thestar.com/news/gta/two-fined

Toronto Star · Two fined after protest at Toronto engineering firm helping with bike lane removalBy Ben Cohen
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Ben Zanin

Welp, I missed the group meetup but I still went out for an excellent winter jaunt through the city. Exchanged coffees with @dfraser, hit all my errand stops, and managed to lug a 10kg UPS back up the Bathurst hill from Spadina/College in that yawning black hole of a messenger bag I use for this kind of ill-advised errand.

Lovely day so far, and there is still sunlight in the sky! #dlws #bikeTO #mastobikes

strava.app.link/hYCq1EWmoRb

(That's Timm's wild rainbow Brompton there, from Pedaal.)

An overhead map view of a ~30km loop around downtown Toronto, primarily east-west.
A selfie of me outdoors between snowbanks in the courtyard outside our apartment, wearing a bike helmet and winter garb. My folding bike is just behind me in the background.
My bike, folded up, sitting outside next to its front luggage bag and an enormous black messenger bag absolutely stuffed to bursting with an enormous corrugated cardboard box containing an uninterruptible power supply for the household server. The UPS is appreciably bigger than the bicycle I used to lug it home.
Timm Harding's custom cerakoted Brompton - white base colour with rainbow Jackson Pollock style spatters, a wild multicolored bundle of shifter and brake cables, a transplanted carbon fiber crankset from a T-line Brompton, carbon rims on the wheels, a SON dynamo hub on the front wheel with a just-barely-visible ruby red dynamo light, Brooks saddle, 5-speed custom rear sprocket cassette... every experiment possible all running at the same time.
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Chris Siebenmann

I don't want to jinx it, but so far Toronto's Snowpocalyse mark III(?) doesn't seem to be much, which opens up hope in my heart that the streets will remain clear enough for tomorrow's scheduled "Coldest Day of the Year" ride, cycleto.ca/coldest_day_2025 (10:30 am meeting, 11 am departure).

Since I don't go on 100% of the rides I don't prepare for, I'm currently making sure my bike lights are charged up and so on. And keeping my fingers crossed.

#BikeTO
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Ben Zanin

Heads up, #BikeTO: next Critical Mass is this Friday, 2025-01-31.

instagram.com/p/DFYTRzjREKF/

InstagramEast End Vs Bill 212 on Instagram: "CRITICAL MASS THIS FRIDAY Come join the first Critical Mass ride of 2025, and make your voice heard! Bundle up, get your lights shining, your bell ringing, and your tires rolling! The province has acquired engineering services to rip out our bike lanes. Let's show them what we think about that. We meet at Bloor & Spadina at 6pm, and ride out at 6:30pm on Friday, January 31st."80 likes, 1 comments - eastendvsbill212 on January 28, 2025: "CRITICAL MASS THIS FRIDAY Come join the first Critical Mass ride of 2025, and make your voice heard! Bundle up, get your lights shining, your bell ringing, and your tires rolling! The province has acquired engineering services to rip out our bike lanes. Let's show them what we think about that. We meet at Bloor & Spadina at 6pm, and ride out at 6:30pm on Friday, January 31st.".
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