Walking
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Tell the City what you think about its Clean Air Plan
Mayor Miller addresses the Toronto Residents assembled to give input on Toronto’s Climate change plan. (Photo courtesy of biketoronto.ca) If you...
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A couple of pedestrian ideas
There were a lot of good ideas floating around at the “Visions for a Walkable Toronto” workshop hosted by the City of Toronto and Spacing...
By Dylan Reid -
Cyclist Profile: Peggy Nash — ‘Cycling a positive behaviour’
In the lead up to, and during, Bike Week this year I will be featuring some cyclist profiles. These will be profiles of regular people who ride bikes in...
By Tammy Thorne -
Walk to Work Day
Today, April 26, 2007, has been declared the first “Walk to Work” day, at least in London, England. British pedestrian organization Living...
By Dylan Reid -
Visions for a Walkable Toronto — Workshop
The City of Toronto, in partnership with Spacing magazine, is holding a public workshop on “Visions for a Walkable Toronto” on Wednesday...
By Dylan Reid -
How to cross railway tracks
Pedestrian activist Roger Brook wrote an interesting article in NOW magazine a couple of weeks ago about pedestrian crossings over railway tracks...
By Dylan Reid -
Earth Day street festival on John St.
Streets Are for People is organizing an eco-fair to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday April 22. John Street will be closed to traffic (or, if you will, opened...
By Dylan Reid -
This will be the best weekend of the year
A few weeks ago, in the little “God [or] Devil is in the Details” section in Eye Weekly, I wrote about the melting snow leaving behind a...
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TCAT Program Coordinator needed: deadline April 23
Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) Project Coordinator TCAT was formed in 2006 to give a unified voice to the many groups working for a...
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Jane’s Walk
To honour Jane Jacobs, who died a year ago, Mayor David Miller announced in November 2006 that May 4 would officially be “Jane Jacobs Day” in...
By Dylan Reid -
Sustainable Transportation II: Bremen, Germany
Last week, I posted some of the interesting material I heard about Kingston, Ontario, at Moving the Economy‘s workshop on sustainable...
By Dylan Reid -
Road to ‘total bikeability’ not clearly marked
The NOW magazine bike panel was certainly an enjoyable precursor to their current bike issue. (The issue includes panelist Tanya Quinn’s open letter...
By Tammy Thorne