As a logical follow-up to the
bus bike racks, and a precursor to an eventual
Bixi outpost, Toronto installed its first subway bike shelter last week at the
Wells Hill entrance to the St Clair West station.
"I believe it will be a path-breaker in allowing Torontonians to see that we need this across the system," says Councillor
Joe Mihevc, in whose ward, and at whose insistence, the bike shelter was constructed. "If you go to almost any subway station right now, you'll see bikes attached to trees, attached to anything that's sticking out of the ground."
The shelter will house 20 bikes, in addition to the 10 that are already accommodated by unsheltered ring and posts.
"I hope to get them done at all subway stations," Mihevc says, "in my ward, and in every ward."
The public realm division of the city's Transportation Services funded the project.
"This is the first of many secure bike parking facilities that are being put in place at other subway stations across the city," said Daniel Egan, manager of Pedestrian and Cycling Infrastructure in a press release. "Some will be full lockers. We expect to have more in place over the next two years."
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Joe Mihevc
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