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cycling

Sharrows (pictured here) indicate where cyclists should ride. For motorists, they are a reminder to share the road. Photo City of Toronto.
Cycling

Urban or suburban? What’s Leaside’s cycling culture?

May 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Earlier in the year, a few Leasiders from Cycle Don Valley Midtown attended the launch of a new report from The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) about biking beyond the downtown core. The report highlights …more

Sharrows (pictured here) indicate where cyclists should ride. For motorists, they are a reminder to share the road. Photo City of Toronto.
Cycling

Want traffic calming? Get more people out on bikes.

March 1, 2019 Holly Reid

What happens when you come upon a cyclist on the road ahead? Do you slow down to assess the situation and then proceed with caution? Or do you dash ahead, accelerating to get past and …more

Members meet with Councillor Jaye Robinson. L-r: Geoff Kettel, Councillor Robinson, Holly Reid, Kris Langille and Jason Ash.
Cycling

Introducing Cycle Don Valley Midtown

February 1, 2019 Holly Reid

When the ward boundaries were redrawn in advance of the municipal election, it was a good-news, bad-news story for Cycle 26, Cycle Toronto’s advocacy group for the old Ward 26. The good news was that …more

Russell Sutherland rarely drives any more, taking advantage of all the bike lanes and park paths to get around.
Cycling

A tale of two Leaside cycling commuters

December 1, 2018 Holly Reid

Russell Sutherland has been cycling to work for more than 35 years. Phil Oliva became a convert to pedal power 12 years ago. What makes these two Leasiders committed cycling commuters? More freedom, less stress …more

Organizers Matt Raponi of Pedalheads and Louis Fliss of Flemingdon Community Health. Photo Holly Reid.
Cycling

Bikes and safe cycling for kids in Flemingdon Park

November 1, 2018 Holly Reid

On a bright, sunny Saturday morning at the end of September, 30 children from the Flemingdon Park community had good reason to smile. Each was outfitted with a bike, helmet and lock, courtesy of Pedalheads, …more

Northlea uses slow-down signs and a Kiss-n-Ride.
Cycling

Make “active” transportation a priority

October 1, 2018 Holly Reid

When we moved to Leaside in 1988 a big draw was that the schools were within walking distance of our home. From Grade 1 through high school, our kids could get themselves to school, fostering …more

Cyclists are advocating for safe and connected cycling routes in every ward.
Cycling

Can we have safe, 
connected cycling routes in Leaside?

September 1, 2018 Holly Reid

That’s the question Cycle 26 will put to council candidates in what is, as of August 13th, Ward 26 and one that safe streets advocates from across the city will be asking their candidates as …more

The new online Toronto Cycling map.
Cycling

Leaside is your gateway 
to some of the city’s best cycling

August 1, 2018 Holly Reid

As many cyclists can attest, when you tell people you ride in the city, their eyes widen in disbelief. “Are you crazy?” they ask. I’m not crazy, but I am cautious and plan routes to …more

Site Manager Claire Scott (far right), and three of her instructors, who welcome up to 150 young cyclists each week to Leaside Pedalheads.
Cycling

Kids on two wheels – will yours be road ready?

July 1, 2018 Holly Reid

Cycling culture definitely has a future in Leaside if the number of children participating in local Pedalheads camps is any indication. Pedalheads is a skills-based camp that teaches kids to ride a bike safely and …more

Leaside Bike to Work Crew 2018. Photo: Russell Sutherland.
Cycling

Laird in Focus promises bike lanes for Leaside

June 1, 2018 Holly Reid

When cycling around Leaside you quickly realize that while we are blessed with some quiet residential streets, there is a definite lack of connected cycling infrastructure designed for safe travel. Laird in Focus, the City …more

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Trace Manes Park on a snowy day
Agnes Macphail.
In the Spotlight

Agnes Macphail Award 
seeking nominations

by Staff in Community

Agnes Campbell Macphail was once described as “the most important woman in public life that Canada has produced in the 20th century.”  In 1921 she blazed a trail for women with her election to the ...more
Recent Posts
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  • Editor’s Welcome February 2023
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  • Mi Casetta, Su Casetta in Leaside’s little corner of Italy
  • Leaside Gardens turns 70!
  • SOL reflects on Leaside’s legislative “annus horribilis”
  • Our very own Trustee Rachel Chernos Lin is the new chair of the TDSB
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  • Celebrating Dr. Erin Boynton’s life in motion
  • Bread, baby, bread
  • Get fit, be fit, stay fit with Leaside trainer Tom Toth
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