Is Toronto a Cycling City?

Taxis parked on bike lane on Lower Simcoe Street (source)

In The Star today, they ask, “So, this is a cycling city?” in response to a rather frustrating article about police inaction with taxis parked on the new bike lanes on Lower Simcoe Street, first brought to light on Duncan’s City Ride.

So given the slow action on the City’s bike lane network, the continuous fight for every inch of bike infrastructure, and two leading mayoral candidates that seem to not understand the need for a comprehensive cycling network, instead of asking, “this is a cycling city?”, I ask, “Is Toronto a cycling city to begin with?”