OCCUPY TORONTO
• Occupy Toronto’s quandary: what to do with the cash [The Star]
• Fiorito: protest movement needs to broaden [The Star]
ROB FORD
• Olbermann dubs Ford worst person in the world [The Star]
• U.S. TV host calls Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford the ‘worst person in the world’ [Globe & Mail]
• Ford didn’t use B-word in 911 call, police chief says [The Star]
• Police chief comes to aid of Ford over 911 call controversy [Globe & Mail]
• Blair backs Ford’s account of 911 calls [The Sun]
PAN AM GAMES
• Ford gets taste of Pan Am fever [The Star]
• Mexico passes Pan Am torch to Toronto [Globe & Mail]
CITY HALL
• Ford outsources business cards to his family’s firm [The Star]
• Library board will reject radical cuts, vice-chair says [The Star]
• New library board proposes shutting 38 branches [Globe & Mail]
• City Hall’s week long vacation from real problems [National Post]
• City eyes plan to cut police paid duty [The Sun]
• City councillors follow the money trail [The Sun]
TRANSIT & CYCLING
• Streetcars collide at Queen and Broadview [The Star]
• Please don’t let e-bikes be driven off our roads [National Post]
• Mad for mud: Toronto home to national cyclocross championships [National Post]
TORONTO ZOO
• Hume: let’s hope elephants do forget [The Star]
• The Toronto zoo elephants’ unforgettable journey [National Post]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto plans to bring relief to suburban ‘food deserts’ [Globe & Mail]
• Hume: Mid-rise, everything you want in a condo – and less [The Star]
• Air and Space museum heads for demolition amid heritage status confusion [The Star]
• Largest ever study on Aboriginals in Toronto finds divided community, racism [The Star]
• Neighbourhood gets into the spirits [The Star]
• Inside Toronto’s scariest haunted house [The Grid]
• “Playful Interventions” put the political back in public space [Torontoist]
2 comments
The elephant in the room with treating ebikes and scooters differently is that they are practically the same thing. Both can be driven with pedals, electricity, or both; and both have top speeds limited to about 30km/h. When my chain came off of my ebike, I rode it as one typically rides a scooter with full battery until I got it fixed. Likewise my dad sometimes uses the pedals on his scooter for a bit of exercise, though not too often because of the condition of his knees.
At the end of the day, if you want to pedal more get an ebike, if you want to let the battery do the work get a scooter frame. But currently they are both pretty much the same. If they allowed scooters to go faster than their bike counterparts, then.I could support an argument for licensing them.
Side note: the bikes mentioned in the link can be purchased through Sears’ US site and shipped to Canada, starting at about $600. Probably your best deal if you are looking at getting an electric.
well, the difference being the scooters weigh a lot more and are liable to cause much more damage in a collision.
also they’re much wider than an ebike and take up more room in narrow bike lanes.