Bikes are no longer rubbing fragile trees on Yonge St. the wrong way after the city protected them from being used as locking posts.

On Nov. 21 we reported that recently planted street trees on the west side of Yonge, north of Gerrard St., had been co-opted by cyclists to lock up their bikes due to a shortage of locking posts in the area.

The bikes and locks were rubbing a ring of bark off the spindly trunks of the young trees, leaving them even more vulnerable to the ravages of road salt and extreme weather.

The city’s street furniture unit said the trees would be surrounded by mesh that will prevent cyclists from locking to them and that more locking posts would be installed along Yonge later this year.

We checked back and found that the trees are now wrapped by material that is too wide for a bike lock, which should give them a new lease on life.

Our Dec. 12 column was about a wonky traffic signal at the intersection of Morningside Ave. and Tams Rd., which kept changing to red for Morningside traffic, even if no cars were waiting to turn from Tams.

With northbound Morningside traffic already pinched into one lane due to construction, the constant red lights created backups that at times stretched about a kilometre south to Ellesmere Rd.

A sensor that triggers the signals was damaged during construction, causing it to revert to an automated 50-50 cycle, but the city said it couldn’t be fixed until the construction was finished.

We kept an eye on it and recently noticed that the lights were staying green for Morningside traffic at all times, unless a vehicle approaches from Tams.

On Dec. 14 we reported on storm drains in front of businesses on the north side of Jutland Rd., east of Kipling Ave., which had the pavement around them removed for construction, creating deep holes.

Cars backing out of parking spots were getting stuck in the holes, while an elderly woman stepped in one and fell, smashing her face on the road.

Transportation services said the holes would be filled with asphalt as soon as weather permitted, which was the case when we went back recently.

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