Torontonians like to sound off on Americans’ inability to deal with guns and gun deaths. But Toronto’ s inability to deal with the car creates its own killing fields.
The SARS crisis took 44 lives in Canada. Ninety-three pedestrians or cyclists have died on the streets of Toronto since Vision Zero was implemented two years ago. The time for half-measures is over — and the half measures are not working, anyway.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters
Charity bike ride turns tragic when driver crashes into cyclists
Unbelievable. Am I wrong in wanting to know the name of the driver?
Bike lanes help, not hurt, suburbs, Keesmaat says
She makes a good point.
This is really about the kind of city we’re creating. It’s about much, much more than bike lanes… It’s also about the revitalization of our suburbs. Are we going to reinforce this idea that they are just places that you get through on your way to somewhere else, or are we going to start creating a critical mass of activity and animation and economic activity, so you don’t need to go downtown to be in a great environment?
How bike lanes could get Toronto’s suburbs moving
Interesting stuff about cargo trikes.
‘You can’t silence me’: Parking officer’s Twitter account suspended by Toronto Police
Terrible. The only police account I followed.
Want Amazon’s new HQ in your town? Must have bike lanes, says Amazon
Awesome.
Ontario introducing $50,000 fines for careless drivers causing death
That’s great, but I hate how the Liberals don’t do anything unless there’s an election on the horizon. They could have saved lives by doing this years ago.
Cycling to work: major new study suggests health benefits are staggering
We found that cycling to work was associated with a 41% lower risk of dying overall compared to commuting by car or public transport. Cycle commuters had a 52% lower risk of dying from heart disease and a 40% lower risk of dying from cancer. They also had 46% lower risk of developing heart disease and a 45% lower risk of developing cancer at all.
This is great: 70 new stations to Bike Share TO in August.
•Lessons from Amsterdam: How to make cycling easy and fun
Interesting half-hour doc featuring Christopher Hume talking about streets, cars, bikes, downtown and suburbs. Article here.
•Toronto’s ambitious bike plan, one year later
As you might expect, a little disappointing
My daily commute by bike turned me into a witness of a truly tragic event
We will look back on how our roads are structured in decades to come and consider it barbaric.
On Chicago’s Improved Bike Infrastructure
as Chicago’s bikeway network grew over the last decade or so (135 percent between 2005 and 2015), crashes per 100,000 trips fell by more than half (54 percent) and fatalities and serious injuries per 100,000 trips dropped 60 percent. And that’s as more and more people started bicycling in the city: bicycle trips grew by a whopping 167 percent within those ten formative years.