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I had the pleasure of meeting a graduate student from York this week who is researching Critical Mass, and he wants to know: Have YOU ever participated in critical mass Toronto?

He is conducting a survey and would like your input. The survey is part of a case study and is completely anonymous and confidential. If you can spare three to five minutes, just go to:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bd637nc23HQRvIBtWxQ8nw_3d_3d

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.

Toronto Police Services have a new 2008 Traffic Issues Survey online.

Clever advert for a the a popular box store in Germany.

From the original MyBikeLane New York:

By my reckoning, MyBikeLane is 1 year old today! Congratulations to the innovator of this pioneering open-source people's law enforcement site.

This van has it's hands spread wide open and is clapping for MyBikeLane . . . not.

Over at the Spacing Wire Matt Blackett has posted a street-level piece on Vancouver's cycling infrastructure. It's informative and inspiring!

The bicycle can be appreciated by all ages, as two stories demonstrate today.

Photo from Todd of Clever Cycles

I'll start with the heart warming story from Todd of Clever Cycles, and how he toured around Portland with his grandmother in a bakfiet (cargo bike).