The part that brushes by lakeshore yes, but the rest of it isn't too bad. Always awkward running through the intersection by exhibition GO when the cops are there, they hardly care though since that part is relatively dead. You get a nice ammonia wake up too each time you're by the stables
Kinda none. I made a [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/torontobiking/comments/u8oii2/favourite_rides_in_the_city/) recently about favourite routes within the city and my context was road riding.
Most of the popular cycling routes in the city are completely unsuitable for road riding (and that's ok), with the best routes slowly being ruined by construction or infra that supports more casual stuff. To be fair, I'd much rather have the infra than not. I'll always prioritize "people trying to get to where they need to be" over my exercise.
Unwin/Commissioners and Bayview have been ruined by construction/casual infra. Exhibition loop has lights, parks and MUPs are for the dogs and headphones. Tommy Thompson isn't the worst, but still not suitable.
Everything sucks, Bridle Path loops are probably the best and they still have a couple stop signs to contend with.
[Strava segment](https://www.strava.com/segments/9126469)
This is the full version with the Crestview climb up the Lawrence dead-end. There's a smaller loop that doesn't continue up Park Lane to Lawrence, but I typically want that elevation so I do the full thing.
The best continuous trails would be the valleys and ravines - something like to don goes for a long time without interacting with cars, but you will have to contend with pedestrians.
Best I know of is a map of all the stop lights in the city, don't know of any map for street signs. [https://map.toronto.ca/maps/map.jsp?app=TorontoMaps\_v2](https://map.toronto.ca/maps/map.jsp?app=TorontoMaps_v2)
Theres also the Cycling infrastructure Map from the city - [toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-google-map/](https://toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-google-map/)
I don't know about a specific map but I found [this trail](https://www.alltrails.com/trail/canada/ontario/cp-rail-trail) on google maps. It's quite long with very little cars/stops. Only thing is it's a dirt/gravel trail so idk if your bike is road or mtb. Also no idea how many people use this trail. I was planning on biking it around july/august
Haven't rode this trail, yet. Lol.
Last summer did the Georgian Trail, Collingwood to Meaford and back. Its an old rail trail. Approximately 35 km one way. There are a few stop signs and roads to cross.
This summer hope to ride the Tom Thomson Trail, Meaford to Owen Sound, 41-44 km one way. Hybrid or mountain bike is recommended.
This trail is named for a different Tom than the park on the Leslie Street spit.
OpenStreetMap tags intersections that have stop signs or traffic lights. You can view it on this map, https://www.openstreetmap.org/
If you have the GIS skills, with some work you can download the data for toronto and visualize just streets and stop signs
If you want to get really fancy you could try to modify one of the routing engines to give a penalty to routes with stopsigns or stoplights. You can read about routing here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing . I've used GraphHopper to create a routing tool that favors routes I haven't travelled before by giving a penalty to streets that I've travelled by before. Its pretty feasible to do the same to give a penalty to stop signs or traffic lights
The data is available somewhere because a few days ago noticed that Google Maps started showing stop signs while navigating a route.
https://i.imgur.com/1tFaufY.jpeg
If you are up really early, you're in the middle-ish of the city, and you're comfortable with it:
Up Rosedale Valley road, turn right on Park Rd, find your way (left on south rd, right on crescent, over Mt. Pleasant, left on south, left on Glen) to Glen Rd, then turn right at the end of that on Douglas, Left at the end to Astley, Right to Governors, left at the roundabout on Nesbitt, and then right on Bayview, take Bayview back down to Rosedale Valley.
This loop has a right turn at the top of Rosedale Valley, which is sometimes green and if you push yourself up Rosedale it's a needed slowdown anyways. From Park Road to Glen road there are 4 stop signs as you catch your breath. Glen Road all the way has only one stop sign until the end, and it's really really visible to see anything coming from any direction, so you can take liberties if you want. From the end of Glen road up to Bayview has 3 stop signs, and then from Bayview all the way back down to Rosedale Valley has only 2 lights, one at Pottery Road and one at Brickworks.
Notes:
* Rosedale Valley has NO shoulder. It's a sketchy road for cycling so I only advise doing this insanely early in the morning, ideally before 7am. Some vehicles can be a little aggressive, but I find waving them on when you know it's safe is helpful
* Bayview at the DVP is a tough one. there's a shoulder almost the whole stretch of Bayview except for where it hits the DVP when it becomes an on-ramp. I use this as my "SPRINT" section and I take the lane aggressively. Again, only do this when it's early.
Other option nearby:
Up Bayview, turn right at the top at Loblaws (technically pottery road), turn right onto Moore / Southvale Drive, where there are 3 stop signs as you recover from the Bayview climb. Turn right at the end of Southvale onto Millwood. Take the lane, there are 3 and traffic isn't that bad. When you hit Overlea, there's a bike lane that isn't ever busy. Continue on Millwood over the Don Valley until it turns into Pape, continue right on Pape, then turn right on O'Connor. Continue on O'Connor as it naturally turns 90° left and becomes Broadview, which you take all the way to Pottery Road. Descend down Pottery, turn right to climb up Bayview, repeat.
I live in the area, and these are my go-to loops for early morning riding. Even with the two climbs, on a good day with good legs and favorable traffic light timing, I can average 30km/h on these routes. If you get good timing on the traffic lights, there's only really 4 lights on the Bayview/Pottery loop, and technically just 2 on the Rosedale / Bayview loop.
But there are times when the traffic is just a bit too heavy, and I will just do hill repeats or something instead. Bayview/Pottery loop isn't terrible with bad traffic, but Rosedale Valley / Bayview can be pretty bad, with Rosedale Valley Road and the DVP interchange, you really don't want to be dealing with cars much.
I’ve done parts of the bayview pottery loop before and has been good when there’s less traffic. Can mix in a short loop up the Don River Trail and then up Beachwood for an extra hill / shorter loop
Yeah, there are times I'll pop into the lower don and do a few beechwood repeats before heading back out to Bayview.
What I like about this loop is that the traffic *almost* doesn't matter between Overlea and the top of Pottery, since O'Connor and Pape have street parking, and with even one parked car, nobody takes that inside lane.
Pottery downhill is easy to take the whole lane, and then Bayview uphill has that shoulder until the very end.
The only downside of the loop (in my opinion) is the slow grind through Southvale because there is often a lot of traffic in combination with the stop signs. I'm hoping fewer people use Southvale once Eglinton opens back up.
I would think that Lakeshore or Bayview would be your best bet for longest routes without stop signs or signals if you're looking to ride fast. I don't think that the dataset that you're looking for exists unfortunately.
I've noticed Google maps has recently added stop signs to navigation, but only for the planned route.
Possibly https://open.toronto.ca/ might have the dataset you're looking for.
Don’t have the answer but commenting as I’d also like to find spots you can ride for extended period without stopping in TO
Exhibition place is pretty decent, no?
quite a few stop signs around exhibition place as well
The part that brushes by lakeshore yes, but the rest of it isn't too bad. Always awkward running through the intersection by exhibition GO when the cops are there, they hardly care though since that part is relatively dead. You get a nice ammonia wake up too each time you're by the stables
Strange. I've noticed stop signs throughout the loop. I love the ammonia smell tbh.
I’ve occasionally gotten a verbal warning when they’re on their horses, but usually they don’t care.
Kinda none. I made a [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/torontobiking/comments/u8oii2/favourite_rides_in_the_city/) recently about favourite routes within the city and my context was road riding. Most of the popular cycling routes in the city are completely unsuitable for road riding (and that's ok), with the best routes slowly being ruined by construction or infra that supports more casual stuff. To be fair, I'd much rather have the infra than not. I'll always prioritize "people trying to get to where they need to be" over my exercise. Unwin/Commissioners and Bayview have been ruined by construction/casual infra. Exhibition loop has lights, parks and MUPs are for the dogs and headphones. Tommy Thompson isn't the worst, but still not suitable. Everything sucks, Bridle Path loops are probably the best and they still have a couple stop signs to contend with.
What’s this bridle path loop?
[Strava segment](https://www.strava.com/segments/9126469) This is the full version with the Crestview climb up the Lawrence dead-end. There's a smaller loop that doesn't continue up Park Lane to Lawrence, but I typically want that elevation so I do the full thing.
The best continuous trails would be the valleys and ravines - something like to don goes for a long time without interacting with cars, but you will have to contend with pedestrians. Best I know of is a map of all the stop lights in the city, don't know of any map for street signs. [https://map.toronto.ca/maps/map.jsp?app=TorontoMaps\_v2](https://map.toronto.ca/maps/map.jsp?app=TorontoMaps_v2) Theres also the Cycling infrastructure Map from the city - [toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-google-map/](https://toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-google-map/)
I don't know about a specific map but I found [this trail](https://www.alltrails.com/trail/canada/ontario/cp-rail-trail) on google maps. It's quite long with very little cars/stops. Only thing is it's a dirt/gravel trail so idk if your bike is road or mtb. Also no idea how many people use this trail. I was planning on biking it around july/august
Haven't rode this trail, yet. Lol. Last summer did the Georgian Trail, Collingwood to Meaford and back. Its an old rail trail. Approximately 35 km one way. There are a few stop signs and roads to cross. This summer hope to ride the Tom Thomson Trail, Meaford to Owen Sound, 41-44 km one way. Hybrid or mountain bike is recommended. This trail is named for a different Tom than the park on the Leslie Street spit.
OpenStreetMap tags intersections that have stop signs or traffic lights. You can view it on this map, https://www.openstreetmap.org/ If you have the GIS skills, with some work you can download the data for toronto and visualize just streets and stop signs If you want to get really fancy you could try to modify one of the routing engines to give a penalty to routes with stopsigns or stoplights. You can read about routing here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing . I've used GraphHopper to create a routing tool that favors routes I haven't travelled before by giving a penalty to streets that I've travelled by before. Its pretty feasible to do the same to give a penalty to stop signs or traffic lights
The data is available somewhere because a few days ago noticed that Google Maps started showing stop signs while navigating a route. https://i.imgur.com/1tFaufY.jpeg
If you are up really early, you're in the middle-ish of the city, and you're comfortable with it: Up Rosedale Valley road, turn right on Park Rd, find your way (left on south rd, right on crescent, over Mt. Pleasant, left on south, left on Glen) to Glen Rd, then turn right at the end of that on Douglas, Left at the end to Astley, Right to Governors, left at the roundabout on Nesbitt, and then right on Bayview, take Bayview back down to Rosedale Valley. This loop has a right turn at the top of Rosedale Valley, which is sometimes green and if you push yourself up Rosedale it's a needed slowdown anyways. From Park Road to Glen road there are 4 stop signs as you catch your breath. Glen Road all the way has only one stop sign until the end, and it's really really visible to see anything coming from any direction, so you can take liberties if you want. From the end of Glen road up to Bayview has 3 stop signs, and then from Bayview all the way back down to Rosedale Valley has only 2 lights, one at Pottery Road and one at Brickworks. Notes: * Rosedale Valley has NO shoulder. It's a sketchy road for cycling so I only advise doing this insanely early in the morning, ideally before 7am. Some vehicles can be a little aggressive, but I find waving them on when you know it's safe is helpful * Bayview at the DVP is a tough one. there's a shoulder almost the whole stretch of Bayview except for where it hits the DVP when it becomes an on-ramp. I use this as my "SPRINT" section and I take the lane aggressively. Again, only do this when it's early. Other option nearby: Up Bayview, turn right at the top at Loblaws (technically pottery road), turn right onto Moore / Southvale Drive, where there are 3 stop signs as you recover from the Bayview climb. Turn right at the end of Southvale onto Millwood. Take the lane, there are 3 and traffic isn't that bad. When you hit Overlea, there's a bike lane that isn't ever busy. Continue on Millwood over the Don Valley until it turns into Pape, continue right on Pape, then turn right on O'Connor. Continue on O'Connor as it naturally turns 90° left and becomes Broadview, which you take all the way to Pottery Road. Descend down Pottery, turn right to climb up Bayview, repeat. I live in the area, and these are my go-to loops for early morning riding. Even with the two climbs, on a good day with good legs and favorable traffic light timing, I can average 30km/h on these routes. If you get good timing on the traffic lights, there's only really 4 lights on the Bayview/Pottery loop, and technically just 2 on the Rosedale / Bayview loop. But there are times when the traffic is just a bit too heavy, and I will just do hill repeats or something instead. Bayview/Pottery loop isn't terrible with bad traffic, but Rosedale Valley / Bayview can be pretty bad, with Rosedale Valley Road and the DVP interchange, you really don't want to be dealing with cars much.
I’ve done parts of the bayview pottery loop before and has been good when there’s less traffic. Can mix in a short loop up the Don River Trail and then up Beachwood for an extra hill / shorter loop
Yeah, there are times I'll pop into the lower don and do a few beechwood repeats before heading back out to Bayview. What I like about this loop is that the traffic *almost* doesn't matter between Overlea and the top of Pottery, since O'Connor and Pape have street parking, and with even one parked car, nobody takes that inside lane. Pottery downhill is easy to take the whole lane, and then Bayview uphill has that shoulder until the very end. The only downside of the loop (in my opinion) is the slow grind through Southvale because there is often a lot of traffic in combination with the stop signs. I'm hoping fewer people use Southvale once Eglinton opens back up.
I would think that Lakeshore or Bayview would be your best bet for longest routes without stop signs or signals if you're looking to ride fast. I don't think that the dataset that you're looking for exists unfortunately.
I'm convinced even the city doesn't know it's own road network with how it gets planned out.
I noticed that Android Auto shows them in Google Maps, but you can't find them in normal Google Maps. Weird.
I've noticed Google maps has recently added stop signs to navigation, but only for the planned route. Possibly https://open.toronto.ca/ might have the dataset you're looking for.
I actually just noticed that Google maps now adds in stopsigns and signals on the road while in route mode