guerrilla infrastructure

I don't know if you'd call this graffiti or a random act of community empowerment, but there must be a few people tickled pink by Toronto's unofficial bicycle lanes. [via Abram]

If you're interested in the real thing, Toronto actually has quite a good bike plan. No, I'm not a spokesperson for Mayor David Miller, I looked at it when I was a transport consultant there. The problem is lack of implementation. One of the city's innovative - and controversial - strategies is to paint narrow bike lanes that are just wide enough to tell everybody that cyclists belong on the road, without actually separating them from the general traffic. I've been looking for some pictures, but haven't found any. (Have you seen any pics, Abram?)

For all you hardcore bicycle planners, here's the full City of Toronto Bike Plan.

Comments

[Abram]

Not sure to what kind of pictures you are referring, but if you mean of the stenciled in bike lanes and symbols, here's a link with a bunch: http://bikelanediary.blogspot.com/

Also a ton of other useful links and resources about cycling not only in Toronto, but in Europe as well.

Thanks, by the way, for visiting, and linking to, my site. And you are right, the new plan for Toronto, if/when implemented, is not half bad.

[Rory]

Thanks, Abram... and one of those links takes me to Bike Toronto, which reports that the City is using the Climate Change Plan as a mechanism to get funding to finish the Bikeway Network by 2012. I imagine this strategy will be used around the world increasingly to promote nonmotorized transportation.