CAT | bike paths
Gobiking.ca is a great site which provides details about a number of cycling routes both in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Seeing as I will be moving to Kingston for two months this summer, the site is particularly useful for giving me some weekend trip ideas. Having taken many of these trips over my years in [...]
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Why Belgium does it better (part 2)
2 Comments | Posted by Ben in Europe, activism, bike paths, design, other cities, photos
Part two of this two-part post on why Belgium does it better has to do with bike paths. Or, rather, what we in Canada call bike paths. In Belgium it’s more like a expansive network of exclusive bike roads linking all of the Flemish-speaking region.
Last weekend, my girlfriend and I took off from Brussels for [...]
There aren’t many things on which I agree with John Baird, but this is one of them. It seems that the NCC chairman wants to sell some of Ottawa’s Greenbelt because it may be the “environmentally right thing… so that not as many people would have to drive long distances to work or home.”
This is [...]
