We have a proposal submitted to City Hall, and to Councillor Doucette to improve safety for both pedestrians and cyclist at the six intersections between Windemere, Ellis and Colborne Lodge with both the Queensway and Lakeshore Drive. The need for improvements has been there for years, but it is particularly acute now with the opening of the new Sunnyside Bike Park just this past week.

To get an idea of what we are proposing, you can look at the one page summaries for two of the intersections here:

Ellis and Lakeshore:

Here the problem is that there is pedestrian and bike crossing on only the left side. In particular, northbound cyclists end up trapped on a small island on the northwest corner, dodging cars turning right on Lakeshore while waiting for the light to change. Also the mixture of bikes and foot traffic is not good. (all photos by JJW)

other cyclists just take their own line across when the way is clear.

Lakeshore and Colborne Lodge:

Here there is a bikes only crossing northbound on the east side in addition to the crosswalk on the west side, but the bike green light is only about 10 seconds long, and this dad and son were trapped halfway across this afternoon.

Also, a cyclist was killed here in 2010. You can read some ideas that we had to improve this intersection several years ago.

Or, you can skip straight to what we are proposing to fix this intersection:

In both cases, the general principle is to have safe crossings on all three sides of the intersection with separation of bicycle and foot traffic.

This afternoon, Janet Joy, Olivia, Laura and Jun collected about 150 signatures on a petition to improve these intersections. We are trying to collect as many as we can to get action on this issue!

If you are support of these changes, please check out and sign our online petition here.