"Cycling to work had become so popular that bicycle rooms, sometimes with over 200 parking spots, were created, or planned, at a number of office buildings and institutions, including the then Union Station (just west of its current location), the music conservatory, and at Confederation Life on Richmond Street where Mayor Fleming had his business office. The plans for Toronto's new City Hall (completed in 1899) included two bicycle rooms. The Board of Trade, to dissuade employees and tenants from parking in the building's corridors, was planning to add a room for 100 bicycles. At the twelve-storey Temple Building, the city's tallest skyscraper at its completion in 1896, cyclists could park their vehicles and, for a small fee, have them repaired and cleaned."

— Wheeling Through Toronto by Albert Koehl (Page 5 - 7)