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How Cycling Will Save Your Wallet and the Economy

March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Theres is a fantastic article in Grist right now by Elly Blue (the managing editor of the excellent BikePortland.org website) that explains how embracing cycling can be an economic boom to an individual, an urban center, and a society: In the many North American cities where two-wheeled transportation is taking off, a new bicycle economy is emerging. It's amazing how much money can stay in your community when it isn't being pumped into the gas tank, big insurance, and the auto market. What … [Read more...]

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BikingToronto in 2010: The Stats

January 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Those of you who have been reading BikingToronto for a while (over a year) know that I *love* stats and graphs, and I love to wrap-up each year on BikingToronto with a few posts that look at the preceding year. Here is the first of those posts.  This post is a general overview of the statistics about BikingToronto's visitors in 2010. The Overall Numbers According to Google Analytics, over 155,000 people visited BikingToronto in 2010. This is a 115% increase over our 2009 numbers If … [Read more...]

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How Bike-Friendly is your City Councillor?

October 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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A couple days ago we let you know about the Bike Union publishing how a bunch of City Councillors (the ones who participated in TCATs election survey) have voted on bikelane installation motions before City Council during the last few years. Here at BikingToronto we decided to take it one step further and figure out (Google Doc) exactly who were the bike-friendliest Councillors in terms of Council voting (and who were the most bike-UNfriendliest). The chart below takes all the voting … [Read more...]

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Counting Bikes on the Bloor Viaduct (with Photos and Video)

June 20, 2010 By 5 Comments
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On Friday morning, I went over to the Bloor Viaduct to check out the new re-painted bikelanes, and while I was there fairly early decided to relax under some trees and count the people biking by on their way downtown to work. The Bloor Viaduct is one of the perfect places in Toronto to do this, as it is what I like to call a "funnel point" over the Don Valley... it's one of very few places that someone biking to work can cross the valley... and it's a 3 km ride north (Millwood) or almost … [Read more...]

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City of Toronto Survey shows Cycling is on the Rise!

January 18, 2010 By 5 Comments
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It's something that we all either suspected or downright knew... there are more and more Torontonians hopping on their bikes to do "utility" cycling (getting around by bike to do normal day-to-day things, like going to work, picking stuff up from the store, visiting friends, etc.) Now our gut feelings have the hard data to match!  The City of Toronto has just released the results of a 2009 study with questions that matched those in a 1999 study (asking the same questions is *essential* for … [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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