The Citizen has an article today on winter cycling, which looks at an apparent increase in numbers.
The key quote:
“When I first started in the winter, occasionally I would see bike tracks in the snow on the bridge, so I would know there is somebody out there sometimes. And then just gradually I started to see [...]
News out of transportation committee today: a motion from Clive Doucet calls for a city-wide study of cycling safety hazards and whether or not segregated lanes might be a solution. The Citizen and CBC have it covered.
Doucet, quoted in the CBC:
“I hope to see Ottawa becoming much safer,” Doucet said Wednesday. “We’ll hopefully have an [...]
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Spacing Ottawa
1 Comment | Posted by Padraic in Ottawa, Toronto, design, online, organizations
We’ve been quite fond in the past of linking to articles from Spacing, the fantastic Toronto-based urbanism magazine. Now, CiO readers should be sure to subscribe to their new Ottawa blog, where they cover such issues as Lansdowne, pedestrian bridges and Big Joe Mufferaw. As well, in Spacing Radio #012, you can hear Spacing Ottawa [...]
So, it looks like this will be another arrow in the quiver of those explaining why Toronto is better than Ottawa.
According to the employees I spoke with on Tuesday, MEC has started selling bicycles at it’s locations in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Longeuil. These are all bigger stores in bigger markets, so have the [...]
From the comments on a post that is still getting new comments, which is worth highlighting 0n the main page:
I just dropped by the MEC downtown Toronto and… I see the bikes! They have some really nice models, I like what I see. (I’m liking the hub gear ones and they even have fixie.) Based [...]
Slate has a good piece up on the nature of traffic laws and cyclists (as a group we tend to break them). It has as good a breakdown as any on the tension between vehicular and facilitator cyclists, which essentially divides into a no paths vs. paths split. I think I like the ultimate conclusion [...]
The Ottawa Citizen will be having an online cycling discussion today at noon.
I’ll try to poke by but, alas, suspect that work might get in the way.
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Why Licensing Cyclists is the Wrong Reaction
3 Comments | Posted by Mike in Toronto, other cities, safety
So, the other day I made a reasonably sarcastic post about an entirely meaningless web-poll that was up on the CTV Ottawa website.
Anyway, Marcus Gee over at the Globe takes the time to offer a more serious and detailed reason why bicycle licensing is a silly idea. The key part, emphasis mine:
That is the key [...]
CTV Ottawa asks if cyclists should be required to get licences.
Luckily, only about 1/4 of people are wrong.
Update: Incorrect is now up to 48%.
The city is beginning to install new bike racks along the northern part of Bank Street this week. In a happy change, they’ll serve as a useful form of public art – not that subtle reminders to buy Gabriel’s pizza are that unwelcome, just not that attractive. From the city press release:
The public art bike [...]
