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Road Rule #1: Don’t Be A Jerk

November 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
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There's a great article in the Wall Street Journal about the problems New York City is facing by having tons more cyclists on their streets (thanks to large amounts of new bikelanes and cycling infrastructure on their streets). Essentially, there are a lot more confrontations between cars, bikes and pedestrians... as they all have to share the same space, so NYC is starting a "behaviour campaign" aimed at fostering some on-street civility... basically telling people, no matter their mode of … [Read more...]

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On The Blogs: The Changing NYC Bike Commute

October 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Duncan looks at the changing New York City bike commute on his City Rides blog: Only a small percentage of the ride is along streets with sharrows and, notice too, that NYC DOT isn’t trying to squeeze one size fits all cycling infrastructure onto a wide variety of streets... Real cycling infrastructure influences real change. How hard is that to understand? Read the full post on Duncan's City Ride … [Read more...]

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Available in 17 Languages, The Toronto Cyclists Handbook

July 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
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The Partnership for Integration and Sustainable Transportation (a joint initiative of CultureLink Settlement Services and the Toronto Cyclists Union) has launched The Toronto Cyclists Handbook. Read more... … [Read more...]

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A Look at the St. Clair TTC Bike Shelter

July 5, 2010 By 3 Comments

More photos of the shelter and how to use the rack pictured above on Duncan's City Ride... … [Read more...]

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BIXI in Toronto

June 27, 2010 By 7 Comments

As most of us already know, the City of Toronto has recently joined the growing number of cities with a public bike sharing program. BIXI Toronto, based off of Montreal’s successful BIXI program, will be hitting Toronto’s streets as early as May 2011. Though there isn't much information online about the program and how it will work I had the chance to chat with a City of Toronto employee to talk about some of the finer details of how BIXI will run in Toronto and what makes it unique compared … [Read more...]

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“The city is a boneyard of broken cyclists, all hit by drivers…”

May 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Article by Catherine Porter in the Toronto Star: Now, I drive a car too, and can list the reasons why I choose to bike most days: the smell of lilac bushes in the morning, the sense of freedom, the endorphins. But I can also tell you that I get frightened on my bike in a way I never am in a car. There’s no airbag protecting me. When you nudge too close, my heart races. And when you lean out of your window and tell me to go to hell, I don’t have a window to role up. If I was driving, … [Read more...]

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Toronto Board of Trade; “Embarrassing” Commuting Times for GTA

March 29, 2010 By 5 Comments

What is the price of gridlock? Do you calculate it in money wasted while idling on a 400 series highway? Do you calculate it in lost productivity due to late workers? Do you calculate it in personal time lost for the simple "pleasure" of driving yourself, alone, to work? From The Toronto Star: Toronto ranked last in survey of commuting times Study by Toronto Board of Trade calls finding “embarrassing” It takes people in Greater Toronto an average of 80 minutes to commute to work, … [Read more...]

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How Many of Your Neighbours Bike to Work? Perhaps More Than You Think!

January 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Patrick Cain at the Toronto Star loves maps (who doesn't?). He's done a couple general commuting maps for the GTA, but has just released one just about Commuter Cyclists, organized by Census Tracts. The map looks pretty much like you'd expect... higher levels of people using bicycles as their primary mode of getting to work in the downtown core (where car traffic moves slower and there are more bikelanes) and less and less as you move into the old boroughs of Toronto and the … [Read more...]

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