{"id":3087,"date":"2008-05-01T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/05\/01\/benchmarking-cycling-in-toronto\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:51:52","slug":"benchmarking-cycling-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/05\/01\/benchmarking-cycling-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmarking cycling in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/53\/141041037_cbd4580a30.jpg?v=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontocat.ca\/main\/\">Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation<\/a> has released a brief report benchmarking the City of Toronto&#8217;s cycling programs against other cities (such as New York, London, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal). Toronto, as expected, is lagging behind its counterparts somewhat (although to be fair some of the comparisons are with the best cycling cities in the world).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/418291\">Coverage<\/a> of the report focused mostly on the total distance of &#8220;on-street bike facilities&#8221; (the report doesn&#8217;t define what that means exactly, so most coverage confused this number with bike lanes proper, which are in fact much more limited). Toronto&#8217;s performance in this category is middling (214 km, of which only 76 km are actually dedicated bike lanes), but it falls behind its Canadian big-city counterparts when that number is compared to the total size of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The report also compares cycling spending per capita with other cities, and cycling&#8217;s share of  total commuting trips, where the city again falls behind Montreal and Vancouver (although, to be fair, Vancouver has not been amalgamated with its suburbs. The share in the old central City of Toronto is probably more comparable to Vancouver). Finally, it ends with an interesting comparison of gender shares of cycling (Amsterdam is the only city where more than half of cyclists are women. In Toronto, almost two-thirds of cyclists are male).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontocat.ca\/main\/sites\/all\/files\/TCAT%20Benchmarking%20Toronto%20Bicycle%20Environment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full report<\/a> (PDF, two pages) to see all the detailed numbers. TCAT is working on developing a more comprehensive report.<\/p>\n<p>The report was released in conjunction with TCAT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontocat.ca\/main\/bikesummit2008\">Bike Summit 2008<\/a> held Friday April 25, which brought together all kinds of cycling experts and advocates. Podcast interviews with some of these participants can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/soundsofsustainability.podcastpeople.com\/\">Sounds of Sustainability<\/a> website (see April 28 and April 23). I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/soundsofsustainability.podcastpeople.com\/posts\/23216\">interview with Koy Thompson<\/a> of the London (UK) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcc.org.uk\">London Cycling Campaign<\/a> quite interesting in relation to the situation in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevenh\/\">Steve&#8217;o<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation has released a brief report benchmarking the City of Toronto&#8217;s cycling programs against other cities (such as New York, London, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal). Toronto, as expected, is lagging behind its counterparts somewhat (although to be fair some of the comparisons are with the best cycling cities in<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/05\/01\/benchmarking-cycling-in-toronto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Benchmarking cycling in Toronto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"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],"tags":[336,22089,431,359,38,469,428,36,430,19,3253,464,54],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","tag-amsterdam","tag-bikes","tag-chicago","tag-london","tag-montreal","tag-new-york","tag-portland","tag-resources","tag-seattle","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-coalition-for-active-transportation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Benchmarking cycling in Toronto - 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\/2008\/05\/01\/benchmarking-cycling-in-toronto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benchmarking cycling in Toronto - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation has released a brief report benchmarking the City of Toronto&#8217;s cycling programs against other cities (such as New York, London, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal). 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