Is this the year higher TTC fares and increasingly packed vehicles and horrible service drive you (or your friends) to finally start biking Toronto? There are great bikelanes being added downtown, with more to come outside of downtown! New increased rates for TTC riders using a Metropass or their Presto card took effect Sunday morning.Starting Sunday, the cost of a … [Read more...]
STATS! Biking Toronto in 2016
Happy New Year everyone! I decided to go look at the last year in Biking Toronto site and social media stats. This may only be interesting to me. Next week, on January 12th, Biking Toronto will be 11 (!) years old! Post stats: Since 2006, there have been an amazing 7,367 blog posts on Biking Toronto! 527 of these posts were posted in 2016, or about 1.5 per … [Read more...]
VISION ZERO: Deadly year for pedestrians in Toronto a wake-up call to improve road safety
Someone's life is worth more than the convenience of a driver to get somewhere a couple minutes faster. Toronto needs to change. On a clear Sunday this fall, Lydia Lebed was waiting her turn at a Kingsway intersection when the pickup truck in front of her vehicle hit a pedestrian. The scene remains etched in her mind: the white hair of the 95-year-old victim; the … [Read more...]
ELSEWHERE: America has 12 protected intersections, up from 0 in 2014
Most pedestrians and cyclists are killed at intersections, so shouldn't we make them safer? Protected intersections — a clever way to rearrange traffic so that people on bikes and cars no longer have to look over their shoulders for each other — have existed for decades in other countries. But after they were visualized for the U.S. context in 2011 by the Dutch blogger Mark … [Read more...]
HELP WANTED: Cycle Toronto Campaigns & Engagement Manager
Cycle Toronto is hiring a Campaigns & Engagement Manager! Reporting to the Executive Director, the Campaigns & Engagement Manager will oversee our advocacy and education campaigns including Bloor, Danforth and Yonge among others. Cycle Toronto is searching for a creative, collaborative, entrepreneurial Campaigns & Engagement Manager to help grow our … [Read more...]
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