Posted on October 19, 2018
Lauren Pelley from CBC Toronto did a TV segment on the #BuildTheVisionTO election results on October 18, 2018. Segment starts at around 4:50: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1347681347660
Posted on October 19, 2018
CTV Toronto reported live from TCAT's press conference on October 18, 2018 where the #BuildTheVisionTO election survey results were released. Clip available here: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1517345
Posted on October 19, 2018
Libby Znaimer chats with Nancy Smith Lea, the Director of the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation, Giorgio Mammoliti, the councilor for Ward 8 – York West, and Murtaza Haider, associate professor for Real Estate Management at the Ted Rogers School ...Read More
Posted on October 18, 2018
"A survey about whether to adopt specific measures to make streets safer, including banning right turns on red lights, has revealed a divide between suburban and downtown candidates in the municipal election, according to a coalition of street safety advocates. ...Read More
Posted on October 18, 2018
"Leading mayoral candidates John Tory and Jennifer Keesmaat are both pledging support for a variety of road safety measures, including the possibility of reduced speed limits, according to new election survey results provided exclusively to CBC Toronto. There is also ...Read More
Posted on October 5, 2018
Road safety advocates agree. "We absolutely need to reinstate that driver training," said Nancy Smith Lea from the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation. Training of some form protects both passengers as well as pedestrians and cyclists, she added. "It was a mistake ...Read More
Posted on September 19, 2018
The city's 10-year cycling network plan, approved by council in 2016, proposes an expanded network of 525 kilometres of cycling infrastructure. But Liz Sutherland, director of advocacy and government relations at Cycle Toronto, says what's been built to date reveals ...Read More
Posted on August 23, 2018
"Cycling has become so popular in Toronto that to ride is to conform – well, downtown, anyway. In the burbs, there’s still work to do. “Building bike culture in any neighbourhood takes time,” says Marvin Macaraig, a community health worker ...Read More
Posted on August 21, 2018
It may seem like an odd time to be writing a positive story about cycling. BBC News recently called out Toronto for being the worst city in the world to ride a bike. Earlier this summer, a surge of pedestrian ...Read More
Posted on August 21, 2018
"Of the many ways that cities try to get drivers to reduce their speed, traditional iterations of the “Slow Down” sign like the ones above may be the most useless, and borderline harmful. These signs often display a disregard for ...Read More
