First visit in a bit - many many large trees blocking pretty much all trails on west side.
Some are passable on foot but not all by bike, FYI.
Off trail conditions were mucky wet and hordes of skeeters and flies.
You can get around but you might be back tracking!
Wow - the aggressivity of vehicle drivers in and around downtown/Market around noon July 1 was positively scary! Can confirm!!
40 year daily downtown bike rider here, no car - 100% comfortable in heavy traffic and know how to take my lane. 6'2", 200lbs.
Never in 40 years biking downtown has ANYONE ever challenged me? Car, truck or otherwise. I drive to stay alive.
In front of the Chateau Laurier headed into the Market. City full of peds, traffic and jets. In red light traffic, I was straight on revved and overtaken by a 30-something PQ Subaru WRX in my own lane, bumper 6" from my tire! We rolled less than 75' - to a RED LIGHT! He then felt it was important to roll down his window and ask me angrily (in English!) "Are you a car or bike? Which?". Revved again.
Five blocks later I watched a tour bus completely pull over and almost roll over a commuter cyclist in a suit! Biker was nimble but the bus driver was oblivious!!
WOW
Couldn't add pix to my last SC path post.
The lack of signage is so bad it's off-putting... " Should I even BE here?" <NO BIKES!>"
There is all the room in the world to give us a clue in such an inhumane location!!
I said there was no signage at this 3 way junction but wanted to post a correction. Since my last visit some MUP signs when up but I think the arrows are backwards?
Someone help me understand why they put arrows to the LEFT for the South Keys station at the bottom of the hill at Hunt Club???
Also, posting the arrows to the O train station in this way ( on a BIKE path!) sends you to a path that (eventually) says "NO BIKES"
Also, what numbnuts put a BOLT right in the middle of that big beautiful red O on those little signs?!?!
Looks horrible and could even be described as lewd if one had the brain of a 12 year old...
<angry old man rant mode off>
I do a big loop - Elmvale- Conroy Pit- southern Sawmill Creek - new northern Sawmill Creek- Mooney's Bay - Riverside- Elmvale.
The new northern Sawmill Creek bike path has an awkward meetup with transit infra (both bus and LRT) , the old Sawmill Creek southern section and the Osgoode Link Pathway going due south. Somehow, they forgot to sign the paths in there...
The only sign there says " No bikes" with a pictogram! Good job!!
No wayfinding, no lines, no signs. Feels like discovering a side quest in a video game!
It is a 3 way junction - the Osgoode Link is obvious but the 90 deg turn path takes you to the rest of the (older) Sawmill Creek Trail. It is dis-jointed and not so obvious for a bit near Bridle Path but hang in there. Continue straight, out of traffic.
I use this segment to get up into Conroy Pit by the toboggan hill areas.
This new linkage helps me avoid Hunt Club and Bridlepath - genius!
Google Bikes mode misses the connection as well. If this route was updated the route planner would be a very effective way to spread the news about this linkage. But I see the segment across Bridlepath to Albion is pretty sketchy and folks might be unsure. It is pretty low traffic and not a high difficulty but old and dusty.
Cheers!