Toronto. A city filled with people. Cars. Taxis. Bikes. And interesting bike related things. We have amazing bike paths (some even along Lake Ontario, with beautiful views!), bike lanes, BIXI bikes (yay!) bike events, and fabulous bike shops! We also have a lot of art in the city, and some of these art pieces include bike parts!

I found one of these bike-part-art-pieces while walking in my new neighbourhood, and was super excited about it! So excited that I took a couple of pictures of it so I could share it with you lovely people! It's a fence made from bike parts.

Ok, let's get straight to it. Just in time for sizzling summer rides, bicyclists now have another way to get around on bike in Boston: Ride the City - Boston www.ridethecity.com/boston! Our bike routing covers the City of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, and Milton. (The dotted red line on the map shows the approximate boundary for routing.)

If you'd prefer to get your bike routes on the iPhone, the app's available in the iTunes Store. (To learn about the iPhone app's functionality, check out our recent blog post).

We'd like to thank Mike Brady and Steven Falcon for the hours of GIS spend to make this happen, Nicole Freedman, Director of Bicycle Programs, for her insightful input, and the many others who gave us early feedback.

If you're new to Ride the City, feel free to play around. If you create an account, you can rate any street in the city so that Ride the City's reflect your own preferences. Learn more about that, and other tools to make mapping fun and easy in our FAQs.

Have fun & ride safe.