active transportation

So, it's on after all. A TTC Strike.
I wonder if the City can do more for Bikes than the measly three or four streets offered for bikes as special routes.

This is the third of three articles on Active Transportation by Toronto-to-Orillia blogger, tucorides. He's given us permission to reprint them from over at Orillia Gets Active.

Tucorides says, "After having looked at why North America became an automobile dependent society, and what problems this has resulted in, today's article will look at active transportation as a sustainable way forward for North American cities in general, and Orillia in particular."

This is the second of three articles on Active Transportation by Toronto-to-Orillia blogger, tucorides. He's given us permission to reprint them from over at Orillia Gets Active.

Tucorides explains, "Article Two looks at the problems caused by North America's dependence on the automobile."

This is the first of three articles on Active Transportation by Toronto-to-Orillia blogger, tucorides. He's given us permission to reprint them from over at Orillia Gets Active. We will be printing the second and third over the next two days.

Us bloggers and readers have expressed some frustration that we don't have better numbers to reflect the number of cyclists that commute by bike across Toronto. We're certain that the numbers in Metro Toronto are higher than the edge of Scarborough. Well, I can now give a qualified confirmation of the anecdotal evidence. "Active transportation" is much higher in the "SOB" region (that's South of Bloor, folks).

Art Project by Michel de Broin, Mercer Union Gallery 2007.

As reported by TCAT - you can also subscribe to TCAT news:

...at its meeting on October 23, City Council approved the joint report from Transportation Services and Transportation Planning titled Sustainable Transportation Initiatives: Short-term Proposals.

Below is a list of amended recommendations, which Council made and that relate to cycling and walking (the amendment is in bold).

Pedestrians:

Our Streets – inserting oneself into the municipal process: a discussion for the everyday person on how to bring pedestrian change to you neighbourhood

Date: Sunday September 30

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil Street (near College and Spadina)

Did anyone else get the feeling this morning that it's the calm before the storm? This was our final weekday of commuting before the streets are packed with post-Labour Day cars.

There are two big things that change on Tuesday. Almost everyone is back at work from summer vacation. And people start driving their kids to school.

For Immediate Release: June 12, 2007

TCAT hires first official coordinator