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MEC’s “controversial” plan to sell bikes
23 Comments | Posted by Mike in Westboro, enviromental impact, shops
I was catching up on some RSS feeds and discovered that MEC is apparently going to start selling bikes in the near future. This is good news, not so much that I am in need of a new bicycle, but because I think it is a natural fit for MEC, who usually do a really [...]
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Council failing on biking
4 Comments | Posted by Ben in city council, commuting, enviromental impact, other cities, politics
Ecology Ottawa and the Sierra Club issued a report card on the current council’s environmental measures. They say that “Mayor O’Brien’s Council lags behind other Canadian cities on the environment.”
One reason for some of the failing grades: lack of funding for cycling. From the Ottawa Citizen:
[F]our years ago, funding for cycling came in [...]
