CAT | mass transit
Ottawa is facing a transit strike as early as wednesday, and one of the city’s suggestions for getting around mentioned is to cycle. The Sun spoke to CfSC Past-President (and CiO comments regular) Charles Akben-Marchand for tips on biking in the winter.
One of the tips given by the city to stranded bus riders is to [...]
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The answer to our g-prayers
1 Comment | Posted by Padraic in OC Transpo, mass transit, online
You can now plan your OC Transpo trips with the slick, user-friendly and efficient Google Transit.
A group of concerned citizens have started up www.ottawalrtnow.ca to gage interest in Ottawa’s LRT options. It seems to be, at least for now, mostly just a collection of PHP forums, but as they plan to take results to Council, it might be worth adding some comment and voting when needed.
I of course, will be [...]
Dalton McGuinty has announced that he will be taking the PST off of the sale of bike helmets and bikes (up to $1,000… I guess he supports biking, but not competitive biking) as of December 1st.
To me, this is one of those political decisions that you can’t help but look at and laugh. [...]
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Toronto’s Dark Side…
0 Comments | Posted by Adam in Toronto, bike lanes, commuting, mass transit
The Toronto Star today talks about the dangers of cycling in Toronto due to a conspicuous lack of bike lanes and the failure of City Council to construct new lanes. A particularly telling quote from the article states that, “at the rate Toronto is moving, it will be 2070 before it meets its 2011 target [...]
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Cicloparqueadero
0 Comments | Posted by Padraic in bike parking, mass transit, other cities
Streetsblog gushes over the bike-friendly nature of Bogotá, including this great bike parking facility (known as a “cicloparqueadero”):
This is an interesting case of the different approaches to transportation policy between the developed and underdeveloped world; unlike in car-saturated North America, where pro-bike policies are designed to reduce pollution or congestion, here they are justified [...]
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Bank Street
4 Comments | Posted by Mike in Bank Street, Centretown, mass transit, photos, road closures
Rakerman takes the picture that I have been unable to get over the past week:
Photo available under CC-BY-NC-SA.
Two curious things about the bank street closure:
1) It was really weird to see people stick to the sidewalks, even when it was perfectly safe to walk on the road. Habit, I suppose.
2) Traffic didn’t seem that [...]
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Bus racks off for winter
0 Comments | Posted by Mike in OC Transpo, commuting, mass transit
OCtranspo is taking its bike racks off of buses starting at the beginning of November.
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Paris, Oh Paris Be Mine
3 Comments | Posted by Adam in bike sharing, mass transit, other cities
Or make that Paris’ bike system at least. There is an interesting letter in The Herald (UK) today regarding how cycle-friendly Paris actually. Particularly innovative is how Paris has incorporated cycling into their mass-transit strategy through their Velib Program. In my mind, the goal of any mass transit system should be to move people as [...]
