profiles

Name / Occupation / Age
John Martin/ cycle messenger and stained-glass artist/ 35

What do you use your bike for?
Work and well, largely work…

How often do you ride?
6 days a week.

Name / Occupation / Age
Jeff Stanford/Clerk-Messenger and Tutor/54

What do you use your bike for?

Recreation/Exercise/Running errands

How often do you ride?
On weekends during good weather I’m on and off the bike all day. Not much during the week.

Name / Occupation / Age

Shaun Moore/ Owner and partner of MADE, retail space dealing exclusively with Canadian designed and produced work. /34

What do you use your bike for?

Almost anything in town that doesn’t require a van. Commute, groceries, hardware, night out etc.

Name: Susanne and Parker
Age: 36 and 4
Occupation: Public Relations Consultant

Where do you commute?
Parker and I ride from Queen East to her daycare about 10 blocks away. I then continue to Queen and Bathurst to work. I use Queen almost exclusively, although sometimes I drop down to Richmond at Church. Sometimes it seems to take a few minutes off the trip, but can be more hair raising!

Name / Occupation / Age
Sami / photographer / 30

What do you use your bike for?
To ride.

How often do you ride?
As much as I can.

How long have you been commuting by bicycle and what made you decide to do it?
I grew up with a bicycle. In countries like India where you have to rely on bike, that is your vehicle of choice because you are poor.

Name/age/occupation: Peggy Nash/56/Politician (MP, Parkdale-High Park)

When did you start cycling?

Do you mean to work or in general? I started cycling about 6 years old. My office is only about 15 minutes from my home, so when I can I take my bicycle. I don’t always commute.

A mock interview of Herb vanden Dool, by Herb vanden Dool.

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