Popular January 2008 Posts
posted by Joe on Friday, February 08, 2008 - Permalink
Here are the 10 blog posts that saw the most action in January. Enjoy.
1.
Two New Electric Bike Stores in Town2. 10 Reasons Why 2007 Was A Great Year for Biking in Toronto
3. Cyclist Challenges Driver Downtown - And Wins
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BikeWinter: Coldest Day of the Year Ride is Wed, Jan 30th5. 8 Secrets To Cycling In Traffic (Complete Series)
6. Photos of the Week: Dec. 31 - Jan 6
7. New Cycling Trail connects Toronto and Caledon
8. New Bathurst Bridge To Have Bike Lanes
9. Taking A Lane With Two Bikes (Or A Sidecar)
10. Velomobile: This Bike Looks Like A Car
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Most Popular Non-Blog Content in 2007
posted by Joe on Friday, January 11, 2008 - Permalink
Yesterday, I posted a list of the 10 Most Popular Blog Posts in 2007 and while a big part of BikingToronto is the blog, there are a lot of pages on the site that aren't blog posts but rather categories of posts. These are very popular with search engines and readers looking for more information.
Here are the 10 most popular non-blog pages from 2007 (not including the front page):
1. The Carnage Category
2. BikeFriday
3. Stolen Bike Listings
4. News Category
5. Photos Category
6. Maps Category
7. How-To Category
8. Infrastructure Category
9. Safety Category
10. Elsewhere Category
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Most Popular Blog Posts in 2007
posted by Joe on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - Permalink
It's a new year, and since I do monthly round-ups of the most popular blog posts on this site, I thought looking at what the most popular were during the whole of 207 would be interesting:
Here are the 10 blog posts that saw the most views in 2007. Enjoy.
1. Seven-Year-Old Girl on Bike Dies After Being Hit By Car In Scarborough
2. Cops Warn Of Sexual Assault Cyclist
3. 8 Secrets To Cycling In Traffic (Complete Series)
4. New sticker program will help prevent bicycle theft
5. You Light Up My Bike
6. BikingToronto and Facebook
7. Update on the Cyclist-Motorist Screwdriver Assault
8. Two New Electric Bike Stores in Town
9. Toronto's Weekly Carnage (Fri, Jun. 8, 2007)
10. Do Helmets Equal Safety?
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Popular December 2007 Posts
posted by Joe on Friday, January 04, 2008 - Permalink
Here are the 10 blog posts that saw the most action in December. Enjoy.
1. Winter Biking in Toronto
2. Two New Electric Bike Stores in Town
3. Velomobile: This Bike Looks Like A Car
4. Bicycle Specialities is Closing Down
5. Cavern Cycles has Closed Down
6. New Cycling Trail connects Toronto and Caledon
7. TreeHugger: Stickers for those Jerks who Park in Bike Lanes
8. 10 Reasons Why 2007 Was A Great Year for Biking in Toronto
9. Unicycling Toronto
10. Seven-Year-Old Girl on Bike Dies After Being Hit By Car In Scarborough
While these are the Top Ten Blog Posts, the new Stolen Bike Listing Page was the 4th most popular page on the entire site (blog posts, archive pages, category pages, etc.) in December. Very cool!
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Popular November 2007 Posts
posted by Joe on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - Permalink
Here are the 10 posts that saw the most action in November. Enjoy.
1. Update on the Cyclist-Motorist Screwdriver AssaultPast Popular Monthly Posts:
2. Cyclist Stabs Motorist with a Screwdriver
3. Toronto Cyclists Union Ultrasound Newsletter - Late October
4. The Globe: Grow Up, Cyclists (Dave Meslin and the Cyclist Union)
5. Two New Electric Bike Stores in Town
6. Bike Theft Thursday
7. Richard Florida on Bicycling and Cities
8. Arrest in Cyclist Road Rage Screwdriver Stabbing
9. Photo of the Day: Transit Messages
10. Toronto planning 50 km of bikelanes for 2008
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Popular October 2007 Posts
posted by Joe on Thursday, November 01, 2007 - Permalink
Here are the 10 posts that saw the most action in October. Enjoy.
1. BikingToronto and Facebook
2. Seven-Year-Old Girl on Bike Dies After Being Hit By Car In Scarborough
3. The Aftermath of a Cyclist-Taxi Collision, in Photos
4. Toronto's First Coloured Bike Lane
5. The New Toronto Cycling Advisory Committee
6. Toronto Police Take Bike Registration Online
7. New sticker program will help prevent bicycle theft
8. Mississauga Cyclist Dies From Crash Injuries
9. The October 2007 Issue of Cyclometer is here
10. Bicycle Friendly Business Award Winners!
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Popular September 2007 Posts
posted by Joe on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - Permalink
Here are the 10 posts that saw the most action back in September. Enjoy.
1. Cops Warn of Sexual Assault Cyclist
2. Seven-Year-Old Girl on Bike Dies After Being Hit By Car In Scarborough
3. New sticker program will help prevent bicycle theft
4. Help a Fellow Cyclist Find the Cab that Doored Her
5. The Morning Crank: Another Cyclist Has Died, and Bells on Bloor
6. New Cycling and Pedestrian Initiatives On the Way, Hopefully
7. The Morning Crank: The Green Party Hits TreeHugger and the TTC raises fares a bit
8. Toronto's Weekly Carnage: 18 Dead
9. TCAT News: Design Issues in Joe Mihevc's Ward, and Baldwin Street Pedestrian Sunday
10. The Morning Crank: Online Bike Registration, Arresting Assaulting Cyclist, and More
3. New sticker program will help prevent bicycle theft
4. Help a Fellow Cyclist Find the Cab that Doored Her
5. The Morning Crank: Another Cyclist Has Died, and Bells on Bloor
6. New Cycling and Pedestrian Initiatives On the Way, Hopefully
7. The Morning Crank: The Green Party Hits TreeHugger and the TTC raises fares a bit
8. Toronto's Weekly Carnage: 18 Dead
9. TCAT News: Design Issues in Joe Mihevc's Ward, and Baldwin Street Pedestrian Sunday
10. The Morning Crank: Online Bike Registration, Arresting Assaulting Cyclist, and More
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Biking Toronto's Top Ten Posts from October
posted by Joe on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - Permalink
Wow... November went by fast... I'll post the most popular posts from November soon.. but for now, here's Octobers list. Check out anything you missed...
1. How To ENJOY Riding In The Rain
2. Streetcar Door Etiquette
3. CycleTherapy Fall Bike Auction
4. I Say Swap It, Swap It Good!
5. The Ootes Challenge, Part III - Ward 29 Electoral Race
6. Riding in the Rain: 22 Degrees in October
7. Martino's BikeLane (Video) Diary
8. Photos from BikeFriday
9. All I Need Now Is A Chainsaw...
10. E-Biking From The 'Burbs
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Biking Toronto's Top Ten Posts from September
posted by Joe on Sunday, October 29, 2006 - Permalink
Well, I meant to post this back in early October... I guess time got away from me. :)
Here are the Top Ten viewed posts from September:
Suburban Cycling Infrastructure in Aurora (Part 1 of 2)
I show photos of bikepaths beside Bayview Avenue in Aurora, and the missed opportunity of having a cool GTA-wide bike path network utilizing hydro corridors.
Suburban Cycling Infrastructure in Aurora (Part 2 of 2)I show pictures and talk about unused bikelanes on empty streets in an Aurora subdivision that is cut off from everything else in Aurora by six-lane "arterial" roads that aren't condusive to cycling at all.
Globe & Mail - Commuting on two wheels and a prayer
Darren and Andrew are featured in a Globe & Mail article about biking in the 'burbs. You'll need a "Globe Insider" account to read the full article, because the Globe likes to screw with people who want to read their content. Go figure.
4 Weeks Until BikeFridayA post about what I was trying to get going for September's BikeFriday.
A Few More Smelly Photos
Some photos from the Smells of Toronto Ride that Herb of the Cycling Cog organized. It was a smell-o-tastic evening!
More Bike Racks on Buses!!!There was a chance that the Rack it & Rocket program would be discontinued, but the TTC voted to not only continue it, but add bikeracks to all new buses!
Another Cyclist Killed
A cyclist killed at Leslie & Eglinton by a cement truck.
3 Weeks Until BikeFriday
Another promo post for BikeFriday. :) Updating the Group Commute news, and what politicians are doing.
Biking Toronto's Top Ten Posts from August
Things like the Quay to the City bikepath photos and the whole bikeposts vs. lumber thing were popular, among others.
The Star - Machiavellian Cyclists
Kenneth Kidd includes the promotion of cycling as part of his 10 Point Transit Blueprint, saying that "we have to be a little Machiavellian here: you encourage cyclists because they make automobile travel even more inconvenient. Anybody who has ever driven on a downtown street during rush hour knows the platelet effect that bicycles have on the flow of traffic." Apparently, he's not yet realized that more cyclists on the roads will ease traffic, since you can fit 6-8 bike commuters in the space one person in a car takes up (this includes the space between it and the car behind it), but somewhat redeems himself by saying "we need to build bicycle parking lots all over the city core and give them pride of place. It does, after all, visibly speak to options other than cars."
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Biking Toronto's Top Ten Posts from August
posted by Joe on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - Permalink
I did this for July, and didn't hear any big complaints, so I thought I'd do it again.
Here are the top viewed BikingToronto August posts.
Photos of New Pedestrian and Cyclist Friendly Queens Quay
The Really Big Cycling News in August seemed to be the liberating of the eastbound lanes of Queens Quay from car traffic to make a cycling and pedestrian utopia.
Quay to the CitySee? Popular!
The Grand Opening of Quay to the City
I went down for the grand opening on August 12th and took photos, as well as met a couple readers of this site, Anthony and Jun.
Hauler Event Poster
Move stuff with your bike! The City of Toronto Cycling Ambassadors put on a great event celebrating the methods people use to move big stuff by bike. I've been seeing more and more trailers and cool bikes with big storage areas since then.
Google Video of Bike Stunts
An amazing video of a girl doing unbelievable stunts on a brakeless, fixed-gear bike.
Bikepost Update - City to beef up bike standsAfter a Toronto Star reporter had her bike stolen from in front of Police HQ on College Street, and reveals that bike thieves have discovered that the post-and-ring bikeposts can be broken with a 2x4 piece of wood and a lot of pressure... well, City Hall pays attention and comes up with a cool solution that won't deprive us of our lollipops.
Introducing BikeFriday
A simple idea that came out of the fact that it's a shame that BikeWeek only happens once a year and a bikepooling idea that Matt Blackett had emailed me about (which I'm still working on implementing for a daily project) was BikeFriday.
Mon, Aug 14th - Bike Events This Week
All about Quay to the City. I think it got a lot of hits because it was linked by a neat new site called BikeHugger.
Thurs, Aug. 17th - Bike News From Other Cities
- A temporary highways over a river in NYC becoming a bike route.
- Cycling in London, U.K., up 72% since 2000!
- Making Bike Commuting viable in Seattle
- Kids in Portland open up their own bike shop!
- A Paris highway is turned into a beach
Crashing the BikeFriday Photoshoot
A story about riding around the financial district so the Toronto Star could take a ton of photos of me cycling with traffic for an article about BikeFriday. I also almost get doored, being saved by my good instincts and low speed (I never understand cyclists who confuse Toronto with the Tour de France...), and have a nice conversation in the comments with a former bike courier who thinks that he is the only without fault cyclist on the roads.
Hahaha. A courier thinks that. Nothing against couriers... I not only admire and am a little jealous of a job spent on a bike, but some (not all) of them are completely nuts.
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