News and Updates

Broadview TTC Track Reconstruction

The City of Toronto and Toronto Transit Commission will be rehabilitating aging TTC streetcar track on Broadview Avenue at the intersections and between Gerrard and Dundas streets. Work will require full closure of the intersections. Signs will be posted ahead of the construction zone to direct vehicle and cycling traffic around the site. Some localized work is also included on Broadview Avenue between Gerrard Street and Hogarth Avenue.

Dundas Bike Lanes

Read my letter to Barbara Gray, General Manager of Transportation Service on the Dundas Bike Lanes.

Here is motion on PW13.11 "Ten Year Cycling Network Plan" from 2016:

6 - Motion to Amend Item (Additional) moved by Councillor Paula Fletcher (Carried)

That City Council request the General Manager, Transporation Services, as part of the Cycling Network Plan objective to renew existing routes where there are opportunites to improve their safety and quality, to:

Car2Go's departure from Toronto was a long time coming

May 30, 2018 By David Nickle, Toronto.com

If I was still driving Car2Go cars like I used to, I imagine that I'd be upset as any car-share enthusiast at the company's announced departure.

The tiny two-seat Smart cars amounted to a much more affordable alternative to taxis when I was running late: I could grab one at a Green P lot near home, and haul down to City Hall or across town to a news conference for not much more than 10 bucks.

Danforth Avenue could be in for planning makeover in 2019

May 29, 2018 By David Nickle, Toronto.com

Danforth Avenue could be in for a massive planning makeover in 2019.

That's if Toronto Council approves the money for a comprehensive, overarching study of the seven kilometres from Broadview to past Victoria Park Avenue. On May 28, Toronto's budget committee sent a letter from Ward 30 (Toronto-Danforth) Coun. Paula Fletcher to senior city staff to come up with the plan for a study that would fold in ongoing work from three city departments.

City of Toronto launches filming pilot program at TDSB locations

The City of Toronto, in collaboration with the local screen industry, is launching xoTO Schools, a pilot program with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to enable enhanced access for location filming at 11 pre-approved TDSB properties as well as interactive educational opportunities for students.

Mayor John Tory made the announcement today with Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth), Chair of the Toronto Film, Television and Digital Media Board, alongside TDSB Director of Education John Malloy, TDSB Chair of the Board Robin Pilkey, TDSB Trustee Jennifer Story (Ward 15, Toronto-Danforth) and Victoria Harding, Associate Executive Director of the Directors Guild of Canada – Ontario.

Council votes to simplify traffic-calming … in a roundabout way

By Ben Spurr, Tranportation Reporter, Toronto Star Thurs., May 24, 2018

In a controversial last-minute decision at the end of a three-day council meeting on Thursday, councillors voted to streamline the process for installing traffic calming measures on local streets.

Under a motion put forward by Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth), community councils will now have the option of waiving a 2002 policy that requires local residents to first submit a petition, then vote in a poll conducted by the city clerk, before the city will agree to implement measures such as speed humps, pinch points and chicanes.

The beats are back on Toronto beaches after a shaky, soggy 2017

By BEN RAYNERPop Music Critic

Fri., May 18, 2018

Dance music is coming back to Toronto’s beaches this summer after a shaky — and somewhat waterlogged — 2017 and there’s a renewed sense of optimism in the air along with the beats.

This Sunday, the Electric Island electronic-music series returns to its longtime home at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands after spending most of last year nowhere near an actual island at all, while June 3 will see Promise Cherry Beach Sundays back on the beach for a full season instead of the paltry two events it managed last summer — with an officially ordained 11 p.m. curfew and a liquor licence, to boot.

Riverside Bridge on this year's Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Finishers’ medals

TTC streetcar crossing iconic Riverside Bridge highlight Toronto’s commitment to transit and its vibrant neighbourhoods

More than 100 Toronto runners accompanied Canadian Olympian Reid Coolsaet, Rachel Hannah of Team New Balance, and the RunTOBeer run crew on a “mystery run” last night. Starting from the Saulter Street Brewery and Eastbound Brewing the group ran to the Riverside Bridge where this year’s Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Half-Marathon & 5K finisher medals were revealed. On Sunday, October 21st, some 25,000 runners from more than 70 countries around the world will take home one of these medals as a much-cherished souvenir of their Toronto running experience.

Martin Goodman Trail Unwin Connection

The Martin Goodman Trail (MGT) is part of a larger network of over 300 km of trails within the City of TorontoThe Unwin Avenue section of the MGT will fill in a missing link to complete a 20 km trail along Toronto’s waterfront from the western to the eastern beaches.This connection was identified in the Baselands Trails Master Plan 2015 and as part of Toronto’s 2016 Ten Year Cycling Network Plan.

City to complete Martin Goodman Trail

By Clare Rayment, Staff Reporter, Toronto Star Sat., May 12, 2018

The city will fill in the final gap in the Martin Goodman Trail, the waterfront path that runs along Lake Ontario from Rouge Park in the east to the Humber River in the west, Mayor John Tory announced on Saturday.

Speaking at a news conference with Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth), Tory said filling in a one-kilometre gap at Tommy Thompson Park will increase the safety of the park and help unite the city.