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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Sometimes the approach to problems taken by the City of Ottawa and its institutions boggles my mind, yet nobody seems to notice. On cbc.ca this evening there was an article discussing the fate of the male driver charged with 5 counts of leaving the scene of a collision after colliding with running through 5 cyclists [...]
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7 People
6 Comments | Posted by Adam in Gatineau, Ottawa, commuting, cycling deaths, law, safety
This is the number of cyclists who have been taken to hospital since Saturday morning due to collisions with vehicles. 5 cyclists were hit on Saturday morning in a hit and run on March Road in Kanata, on Tuesday night a man was hit on Ogilvie Road and on Wednesday morning a man in Gatineua [...]
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Bike-Share Pilot Project Coming to the Capital
1 Comment | Posted by Mike in Gatineau, NCC, Ottawa, bike co-ops
The NCC, in collaboration with the City of Ottawa and City of Gatineau will be launching a “trial run” of the Bike Share service expected to go live in 2010. Here’s the relevant paragraph from the press release:
The service will be made available through bike rental stations to be set up at various points throughout [...]
