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\nLondon, England has just unveiled a jaw-dropping new plan<\/a> to greatly increase the amount of walking and cycling in the city.<\/p>\n

London plans to spend the equivalent of almost a billion dollars over the next decade on a series of massive cycling and walking initiatives throughout the greater London area. The schemes include a huge bikes-for-hire system in the city centre, designated cycle commuter routes, bike zones with cycle priority streets in shopping and school areas, and a massive new wayfinding system for pedestrians.<\/p>\n

I particularly like the way cycling is seen as becoming a “fully-funded part of the public transport network” — that is, something that is worth significant ongoing funding as part of a coherent transportation strategy. The stated goal is to have one in ten Londoners make a round trip by bike every day.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the rest of Great Britain, a plan to build crossings and bridges for walkers and cyclists<\/a> that create new direct routes to destinations in communities across the nation has just been awarded the equivalent of almost a hundred million dollars. It’s a recognition that pedestrians and cyclists need and deserve their own infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, back in Toronto, the newly-named Metrolinx (old GTTA) has started to put out extended discussion papers about sustainable transportation, and is looking for public feedback. Their website is still terrible<\/a>, so that, in one place, you can download the documents but you don’t know their names<\/a>, while in another place you can see the names but some published documents aren’t yet available<\/a>. But it’s still a good thing that they are putting a lot of work into the issue, and especially that they have produced a discussion paper specifically focused on active transportation<\/a> (walking and cycling). I encourage all transportation geeks to have a look and send them comments.<\/p>\n

photo by Graeme<\/a>
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