The Public Works Committee will be tackling several bike safety recommendations at its meeting next week.

According to a report from The Toronto Star, two councillors want the city manager and transportation department to investigate the safety risks posed by old, unused streetcar tracks.   

Councillors Joe Mihevc and Mike Layton brought the item to Public Works for consideration. A report can be expected by the end of 2012 if the committee approves.

The recommendations come on the heels of another recent cycling fatality. In early August, a man riding his bike on Wychwood Ave., near St. Clair Ave. West got a tire stuck in an unused track, fell off his bike and hit his head on the pavement.

He was not wearing a helmet, and he died shortly after his fall.

City staff are also pushing to prohibit right turns on a red light at the intersection of Dundas St. West and Sterling Rd., where a 38-year-old pregnant cyclist died in November 2011 after getting caught beneath a truck turning right.

The tragedy was said to be preventable.