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- Saturday Photo: Bixi Getting Ready for the Winter by Recreating Eden: Mary Soderstrom's Blog on Nov 21, 2009
Montreal's bike rental program is winding down for the season, after providing more than 1 million trips around the city. Since the first of November, the numbers of Bixis available has been cut, and November 30, the system will shut down for the wi...
- Mayor releases plan to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020 by Stephen Rees's Blog on Oct 21, 2009
Gregor Robertson used the platform of the current Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre to launch “Vancouver 2020 A Bright Green Future” yesterday. This is the document from the Greenest City Action...
- Sustainable Mobility & Cycling in New York by Stephen Rees's Blog on Oct 20, 2009
Janette Sadik-Khan “Learning from New York” Shifting Gears II series SFU City Program at the Convention Centre, October 19 This was probably the largest audience for one of these lectures that I have seen: somehow everyone managed to get in altho...
- BIXI Bikeshare Montreal is Fantastic by blog.knicolekindred.com on Sep 20, 2009
I was recently on holiday in Montreal and had the pleasure of experiencing another city's bike-ability. Montreal is a fantastic city for bikes. First of all, they have implemented a fantastic bike sharing service called BIXI.BIXI is a very simple con...
- “Use your head: Bike helmet laws don’t work” by Stephen Rees's Blog on Sep 16, 2009
Brad Killburn in the Richmond News presents some intriguing information about how helmet laws got through the legislature. The article is full of useful data – but sadly none of it is properly cited or referenced, so I have not been able to ide...
- Cars vs Cyclists by Stephen Rees's Blog on Sep 3, 2009
This post is prompted by two articles on the vexed issue of cars and cyclists trying to co-exist on the same roadway. The first is in citycaucus.com and makes the point – unhelpfully – by stating the obvious “When cars and cyclists...
- Go to Mount Royal to Find Pure Air in Montreal, Study Shows: Or Pollution Knows No Boundaries by Recreating Eden: Mary Soderstrom's Blog on Aug 20, 2009
The health of Montrealers depends on Mount Royal: if there were any doubt about it, new research to be published shortly in Social Science and Medicine shows that the mountain and neighborhoods next to it are much less polluted. Dan Crouse, a doc...
