TCAT News

Is walkability, bikeability, mobility, or livability part of your work? A reminder that TCAT invites you to submit a proposal for the 2012 Complete Streets Forum - taking place in Toronto on April 23, 2012. Proposals should be evidence-based and relate to the planning, design, engineering, education, or evaluation of Complete Streets. Deadline for submissions is 5 pm, January 20, 2012. For more information, visit here. 

The next Yonge Street Speaker lecture "Feet + Wheels" will generate ideas on how to create safe streets that have room for everybody who needs to use them. Sponsored by the Toronto Community Foundation and Waterfront Toronto, the upcoming dialogue will include TCAT director Nancy Smith Lea. Register here. 

In response to the City of Toronto's renewed interest in off-road path construction, TCAT has developed a backgrounder on Designing Off-Road Paths for Pedestrians and Cyclists. This backgrounder is the second in TCAT's backgrounder series, the first of which focused on Bikeway Options currently under consideration in Toronto.

The same Public Works and Infrastructure Committee meeting voted in favour of increasing fines for stopping in bike lanes from $60 to $150. Although enforcement rather than fines has been found to be the primary deterrent for by-law violations, this is certainly a positive move. Already illegal, the City is looking into creating a fine for sidewalk riding, likely $65.

Is walkability, bikeability, mobility, or livability part of your work?

TCAT invites you to submit a proposal for the 2012 Complete Streets Forum – taking place in Toronto on April 23, 2012. 

National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy published a
literature review exploring the impacts of traffic calming in urban
areas. Featuring an original approach, the document compares individual
measures with systematic area wide interventions and their impacts on-road
collisions, air quality, noises, and the physical activity associated with
active transportation.

The Toronto Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT), a project of Clean Air Partnership invites you to submit a proposal for the 2012 Complete Streets Forum – taking place in Toronto on April 23, 2012.

Is walkability, bikeability, mobility, or livability part of your work? The Toronto Centre for Active Transportation is looking for presenters for the 2012 Complete Streets Forum.

Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street. But what does a complete street actually look like? We are looking for feedback from a wide range of people including engineers, planners, urban designers, architects, and community members.

Following the tragic death of Jenna Morrison, and 13 years after the same recommendation was made by the Regional Coroner of Toronto, last week Toronto City Council passed a motion on sideguards for trucks.