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Ottawa > Toronto
0 Comments | Posted by Padraic in 2010 election, Ottawa, Toronto, bike lanes
The Ottawa Citizen offers a short piece describing the positions of mayoral candidates on cycling policy. Mike described this as “why Ottawa’s mayoral race is better than Toronto’s”; given that the Toronto candidate who once said “it’s their own fault” of cyclists who get killed in traffic now has a narrow plurality in the polls, [...]
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Recent cycling links
0 Comments | Posted by Padraic in New York, Ottawa, Toronto, bike lanes, provincial government, safety, video
1. Cycling in Ottawa contributor appears on CTV News to discuss bike safety in the wake of recent cycling deaths.
2. The New York Times’ ethics columnist goes for a bike ride around New York City and discusses cycling ethics.
3. The 2010 Bikeway Network Improvements pass Toronto City Council, but the high-profile plan for a segregated [...]
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Segregated Cycling lanes
3 Comments | Posted by Mike in Centretown, Ottawa, bike lanes, city council, commuting
Hello all!
With winter finally seeming to have been beaten, it’s time to take this blog out of its seasonal (albeit never planned) hibernation.
There’s been a lot of attention paid in the past few weeks to a pilot project that would see the city create a segregated cycling route through centretown on a trial basis. The [...]
The Canadian Police Information Centre is the agency in Canada which maintains criminal and police records. It also maintains a database of stolen vehicles – including bicycles – which is searchable online. One can enter the serial number for any bicycle in the Bicycle Search section of their web page to see if they have [...]
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 [...]
