Gossip Roundup for February 8, 2021

Has Toronto embraced the need for bike and pedestrian-friendly streets?;   Novotel on the Boardwalks to become temporary emergency shelter;   Recycling the SRT; and more progress:

Has Toronto embraced the need for tandem and pedestrian-friendly streets?   (Globe and Mail)

Novotel within Esplanade to become temporary emergency shelter (Toronto Star)

Taking the SRT (Steve Munro)

Pandemic, rising costs have a quarter of Toronto's taxis journey roads (CBC News)

Uber Eats couriers say very new pay system dropped wages (Globe and Mail)

Local companies worried about uncertainty as Toronto almost certainly going to remain under lockdown   (CBC News)

Even ‘when options were good’ families were promoting red flags. Inside four years’ advantage of violations at Tendercare long-term-care home  (Toronto Star)