Originally Posted by
Daniel4
That was the approach before the city had changed it to traffic lights. I used to have to cross the car lanes by riding along one of the two painted green lanes marked with sharrows. Yes, as a cyclists you have to have the nerve to keep looking over your left shoulder until it was clear and expect that drivers expect cyclists to cross.
That's precisely where a GOOD quality rear-view mirror is handy. I used the Mirrcycle mirror on my bicycle.
Then I discovered the Rosedale Valley Road route and used that to get from Broadview and Gerrard to Yonge and Davenport. Gerrard to River, River to Bayview, Bayview to Rosedale and then Rosedale to the little side street just before climbing out to Yonge Street. in the evening ride home I reversed that route.
The area of Toronto I lived in sure has changed since the mid-1980s.
Cheers