Feasibility of a Pilot Project for Separated Bicycle Lanes on Richmond Street and/or Adelaide Street
City Council Decision
City Council on November 29, 30 and December 1, 2011, adopted the following:
1. City Council authorize the General Manager of Transportation Services to initiate a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment study for separated bicycle lanes within the Richmond-Adelaide corridor, between Bathurst Street and Sherbourne Street, which could include consideration of a pilot project to install and evaluate separated bicycle lanes on the preferred alignment during the course of the study.
2. City Council direct that the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Study for separated bicycle lanes within the Richmond-Adelaide corridor be limited to existing one-way road configurations, with the exception of the portions between University Avenue and Bathurst Street, and that the terms of reference for the environmental assessment include a consideration to examine converting Richmond Street and Adelaide Street, between University Avenue and Bathurst Street, back to two-way streets as a way of facilitating the installation of separated bike lanes on the street.
3. City Council authorize the General Manager of Transportation Services to initiate a second study to develop preferred bikeway route alignments to connect the future Richmond-Adelaide corridor bike lanes to existing bikeways east of the Don Valley, including, but not limited to, Dundas Street East, Eastern Avenue, and the Lake Shore Boulevard East path, as well as to the west of Bathurst Street to connect with bikeways on Strachan Avenue and Shaw Street.
