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Cycling in the City

Outdated but Calculated – Bicycle Licensing Debate in Toronto

April 19, 2010
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Last week Toronto Mayoral candidate, Giorgio Mammoliti, announced that, if elected, he would introduce bicycle licensing as a way to help pay the cost of proposed new cycling lanes. This is an idea that has been raised before, and as the City of Toronto’s own website clearly states, ‘studies have concluded that licensing is not worth it.’
Besides this recent bicycle licensing idea, Mammoliti also proposed in 2007 that the army should be called in to [...]

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Mean Green MEC Takes on the Bike Shops

November 7, 2009
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Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) is a store known by pretty much every Canadian who has ever camped, traveled, rock climbed, kayaked, or participated in any number of other outdoor pursuits. Since 1971, it has built up a reputation as the destination store for anything you might need for the outdoors, at a very resonable price, run by environmentally-friendly, forward-thinking people.
An article last week in the Globe and Mail discussed a hotly debated issue surrounding MEC [...]

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How Cyclists can make the Streets more Car-Friendly*

October 17, 2009

Since all cyclists are such forward-thinking, progressive, equal rights types, it’s time to develop a good list of ways to make the streets more car-friendly. This may make many cyclists gasp, but consider it for a moment.
Until Toronto becomes as advanced as Copenhagen and their bicycle superhighways cyclists will inevitably on their daily commute have to share the road with motorists. So how can you make the streets more pleasant for the motorists?

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Faggot!

September 13, 2009

So today I got out for a 70 km ride with some friends. I haven’t been cycling much lately, aside from my daily 10 km commute. I have noticed a sharp rise in angry drivers now that the school season is back in and there is simply more volume, and less space on the roads. Since the death of courier Darcy Sheppard a few weeks back, I have been more cautious and more [...]

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Compassion

September 5, 2009

The title… compassion is a word I referred to in my last post. A word I heard a distraught and angry courier say repeatedly on CP24 (Toronto TV channel) a few hours after the death of his friend and fellow cyclist Darcy Allan Sheppard.

Compassion is definitely not what I am sensing from Toronto drivers and some newspaper columnists. This article in Friday’s Globe and Mail by columnist Marcus Gee is one example in a string of articles since the much publisized death of Darcy Sheppard that highlights my point. They are using his death as a way of shaking the public finger at all cyclists and laying blanket accusations that all cyclists run red lights, and ride unpredictably.

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