Toronto Silly Hall

The Year of the Spoke (too soon)

• by: Chris Bilton

In the wake of the mayor’s late-2008 announcement, this year should be the first in Toronto’s history where the Bike Plan would be fully funded, with an ambitious push to have the equally-ambitious 1,000km of new bike lanes completed by 2012. But no matter how much the city gets behind the bike, the experience of cycling in Toronto has changed very little over the years. And if we’re really serious about promoting cycling as an effective alternate means of transport, that experience needs to improve. ...more

For the war, but against the troops

• by: Chris Bilton

The start of municipal election season in Toronto is still at least six months away, but don’t think that mayoral aspirations aren’t gestating in the minds of a few city councillors even as we speak. The right is still rising (slowly, slowly) as council’s unofficial opposition — and sometimes they even make sense. Six years after EYE WEEKLY endorsed David Miller's Torontopia-friendly campaign, Chris Bilton asks: is it time to consider the alternatives?
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