{"id":1815,"date":"2007-04-27T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:41:30","slug":"bike-friday-and-the-green-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/27\/bike-friday-and-the-green-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Friday and the green agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/bikingtoronto.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/bikefriday\">BikeFriday<\/a> and cyclists all over the city rode to work this morning in groups. Tonight at 6:30 we ride together again for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmtoronto.ca\/\">Critical Mass<\/a>. Meet at Spadina and Bloor at 6 p.m. (Rumour has it that some cyclists will be meeting at Dundas Square, too.) You can see a discussion about CM in Toronto with this previous <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1795\">post<\/a>. And, if you are feeling really wild and crazy then join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiketo.ca\/node\/47\">Critical Ass<\/a> later, at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Judging from the fab photos here on <a href=\"http:\/\/bikelanediary.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/bike-friday-real-climate-change.html\">bikelanediary<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_-M-Edwn-coI\/RjIKNITFi8I\/AAAAAAAAAoE\/Nt11iiG5bm0\/s320\/P1010232.JPG\">Grassroots<\/a> Bikers Breakfast was a real success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"240\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_-M-Edwn-coI\/RjIKNITFi8I\/AAAAAAAAAoE\/Nt11iiG5bm0\/s320\/P1010232.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nOver in Parkdale, the ratio of bikers to politicians was 1:1 for most of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Area MP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peggynash.ca\/\">Peggy Nash<\/a> (see featured profile interview later today) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordperks.ca\/gordperks\/Gord%20Perks\/Home.html\">Gord Perks<\/a>, our &#8220;green&#8221; city councillor, were both on hand to show their support for <strong>BikeFriday<\/strong> and cycling. Nash&#8217;s office procured coffee from local java joint, Poor John&#8217;s Caf&eacute;, and had some tasty munchies for us cyclists and the many passers-by who stopped to chat. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndp.ca\/greenagenda\">NDP&#8217;s Green Agenda<\/a> was also available.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the pictures. Note the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkdalevillagebia.com\/?q=node\/372\">bike rack sculpture<\/a> with Peggy&#8217;s bike. The <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1120\">bike rack sculpture program<\/a> is an initiative of Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/167\/474555606_a12da8c6dd_m.jpg\" \/>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/204\/474555616_9333675e77_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/183\/474555622_b7785e9fa9_m.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/209\/474555628_0d7a62c3eb_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is BikeFriday and cyclists all over the city rode to work this morning in groups. Tonight at 6:30 we ride together again for Critical Mass. Meet at Spadina and Bloor at 6 p.m. (Rumour has it that some cyclists will be meeting at Dundas Square, too.) You can see a discussion about CM in<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/27\/bike-friday-and-the-green-agenda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Bike Friday and the green agenda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21758,3,13,2,9],"tags":[5517,655,154,23,4307,4056,5446,26,19],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-community","category-events","category-green-space","category-politics","category-traffic","tag-area-mp","tag-city-councillor","tag-dundas-square","tag-environment","tag-java","tag-parkdale-activity-recreation-centre","tag-peggy-nash","tag-people","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bike Friday and the green agenda - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/27\/bike-friday-and-the-green-agenda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bike Friday and the green agenda - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is BikeFriday and cyclists all over the city rode to work this morning in groups. 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