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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city...ne-st-go-ahead

Bike lanes: Separated lanes for Sherbourne St. go ahead



Work is to begin soon to add separated bike lanes to Sherbourne St. as part of planned repairs to the street.

The $4.1 million contract includes $2.5 million for bike lanes and the rest for road resurfacing, sidewalk and streetscape improvements.

In a first for Toronto, curbs and a painted buffer strip will be employed to separate bikes from cars. Street parking will be lost, but delivery zones will be provided.

Sherbourne St. was touted as a better, safer north-south cycling route than Jarvis St., where motorists complained after painted bike lanes were added in the summer of 2010 under former mayor David Miller.