Image from the Toronto Archives
By Lara Onayak
In this 1910 photo, cyclists walk along the side of the road –without any protected or separate lanes, pushing their bicycles up hill while a car drives by on Poplar Plains Road.
Years after this photo was taken -- and about 36 years ago from today -- Poplar Plains Road sported the very first bike lane in Toronto.
The winding hill makes for a great ride down, but a more challenging ride up. The bike lane south, back downhill is now on the adjacent Russell Hill Road.
Read our dandyARCHIVE "A cyclical history" on some of the other major milestones in Toronto's biking history here.
Related on the dandyBLOG:
dandyARCHIVE: The Long Road to a Bike Path
The Second Annual Vintage bike show
Flashback Friday: Pack up your Troubles
Flashback Friday: Race at the CNE
Flashback Friday: Bicycle race at the Scarborough velodrome

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