Bikes

Motor make-believe

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Make-believe is a beautiful thing when you’re defending a car-dominated transportation system amidst a disturbing road casualty toll... Read More

The long history of cycling in Windsor, Canada’s Motor City

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The Windsor Law Centre for Cities at the University of Windsor recently published a detailed history of cycling in Canada’s... Read More

Searching for Black history in Niagara-on-the-Lake

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We did the Black thing as we passed each other on the trail — nods of mutual recognition, a celebration that we are still here. I had... Read More

2021 Toronto Bike Plan Update: Does it Build Back Better?

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The City of Toronto is currently working on the 2021 – 2023 Cycling Implementation Plan, which will come to the Infrastructure and... Read More

Scarborough’s First Bicycle Path – and the students behind it

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The university students behind Scarborough’s first bicycle path couldn’t have predicted that it would one day provide a lifeline to... Read More

REID: Is ActiveTO on life support?

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On a Sunday in the middle of May, I went for a bike ride along the south end of Bayview Ave., which was open to pedestrians and... Read More

REID: Yes exit

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It’s the kind of thing that has always hung out at the edge of our urban consciousness, that we used to occasionally notice and find... Read More

Progress during a pandemic – a cycling year in review

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Toronto City Council approved a ten year bike plan in June 2016, which called for 335 kilometres of on-street cycling infrastructure... Read More

LORINC: 2020, a year of urban resilience

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The answer to the “whither-cities” question that’s buzzed around the edges of pandemic punditry was never seriously in... Read More

Ten tips for the cycling advocate at City Hall

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When Bells on Bloor was formed in 2007, we thought that convincing City Hall to install bike lanes was simply a question of... Read More