{"id":1841,"date":"2007-05-02T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T17:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:30","slug":"tell-the-city-what-you-think-about-its-clean-air-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/02\/tell-the-city-what-you-think-about-its-clean-air-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell the City what you think about its Clean Air Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/biketoronto.ca\/images\/content\/608\/ClimateChangeForumMiller.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mayor Miller addresses the Toronto Residents assembled to give input on Toronto&#8217;s Climate change plan. <\/em>(Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/biketoronto.ca\/topic\/show\/608.htm\">biketoronto.ca<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1787\">Climate Change Action Forum<\/a> at Exhibition Place this Sunday, you can still submit comments to the City by filling out this <a href=\"https:\/\/wx.toronto.ca\/inter\/city\/climatechangeforum.nsf\/Comments?OpenForm\">comment form.<\/a> You can view the City&#8217;s &#8220;Change is in the Air&#8221; report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/changeisintheair\/change.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to New York City&#8217;s recently announced green plan, called &#8220;A Greener, Greater New York&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/downloads\/pdf\/full_report.pdf\">here<\/a>. (Warning large PDF.) Alternatively, you can visit the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/plan\/download.shtml\">here<\/a>, and read it chapter by chapter. Note that in NY&#8217;s plan, cycling plays a prominent role. It is initiative number 9, outlined beginning around page 88 of the full plan PDF.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main planks of this initiative is to <strong>complete the city&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>1,800-mile <\/strong><em>(2,898 km)<\/em><strong>\u00a0bike master plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to reduce traffic and reach our clean air and greenhouse gas reduction goals, New Yorkers should be given the option of reaching their jobs and major city destinations through cycling. That is why we will dramatically accelerate the implementation of the City&#8217;s 1,800-mile bike lane master plan, to ensure that the entire system is in place before 2030.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report also notes the progress made in Chicago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 2015, Chicago wants at least 5% of all trips less than five miles to be on bicycle. The city has discovered that shifting trips to bikes can become a congestion management strategy. It has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bike2015plan.org\/\">already installed more than 160 miles of bike lanes<\/a> throughout the city. Brean Martin thinks car congestion has already lightened up. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It used to be that I&#8217;d go flying on my bike through dead-stopped traffic,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d saidMartin. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now, the cars actually move.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martin Koob attended and posted about the treatment bikes got on <a href=\"http:\/\/biketoronto.ca\/topic\/show\/608.htm\">biketoronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also simply email your opinions to: <a href=\"mailto:changeisintheair@toronto.ca\">changeisintheair@toronto.ca.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Update: the deadline for comments<\/em><em> <\/em><em>is actually May 31st. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Miller addresses the Toronto Residents assembled to give input on Toronto&#8217;s Climate change plan. (Photo courtesy of biketoronto.ca) If you missed the Climate Change Action Forum at Exhibition Place this Sunday, you can still submit comments to the City by filling out this comment form. You can view the City&#8217;s &#8220;Change is in the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/02\/tell-the-city-what-you-think-about-its-clean-air-plan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Tell the City what you think about its Clean Air Plan&#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":[7,13,2,9,8,20,6],"tags":[5590,431,5591,5589,4290,657,469,564,21,416,12,19],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-green-space","category-politics","category-traffic","category-transit","category-urban-design","category-walking","tag-car-congestion","tag-chicago","tag-clean-air-plan-mayor","tag-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goals","tag-martin-koob","tag-miller","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-other-cities","tag-pdf","tag-planning","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tell the City what you think about its Clean Air Plan - 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\/05\/02\/tell-the-city-what-you-think-about-its-clean-air-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tell the City what you think about its Clean Air Plan - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mayor Miller addresses the Toronto Residents assembled to give input on Toronto&#8217;s Climate change plan. 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