The last two weeks: Playboy, strip clubs, and bike lanes

Now that I’ve landed a gig, these weekly things are going to have to be a little simpler. The best way to stay up on what I’m up to is still following me on Twitter. In The Grid:

• After Jenna Morrison was killed by a truck while riding her bike at Dundas West and Sterling, a ghost bike was chained to the stop sign beside where she died. Last Tuesday, that ghost bike was taken down, but now rogue bike lanes have been installed there for safe measure.*
• The Toronto Sun freaked out that the Toronto Public Library system has one Playboy subscription, at a cost to taxpayers of $278 USD. So how much is the Toronto Public Library system paying for the Toronto Sun?
• Here are some photos of naked people clinging for their lives to things, and an interview with the photographer responsible.
• That TTC town hall wasn’t all weird comments: some people made suggestions for how to make the TTC a better way, with varying degrees of plausibility.*
• Yonge Street used to be seedy. How seedy? This seedy.*
• Bixi moved west, and its first station along Bathurst Street was plopped in front of the island airport.*

Here:

• Sue-Ann Levy wasn’t too happy with me about this, so we argued on Twitter about it a bit.
• Google Maps shot their Street View imagery of Toronto throughout 2009, but Toronto’s changed an awful lot since them. Here’s what Toronto used to look like (really, really recently).

(* means an article or a version of it appeared in The Grid in print; otherwise, it was online-exclusive.)