I mentioned on Monday that Mayor David Miller and Budget Advisory Committee Chair Councillor David Soknacki are having public consultation meetings around Toronto. Two of them (the North York & Etobicoke ones) were today, while the other two (the Scarborough and East York ones) are on Wednesday & Thursday this week:

Wednesday, February 8, 7 - 9:30 p.m. East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave
(n/w of Coxwell & Mortimer)

Thursday, February 9, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Drive (n/w of McCowan & Ellesmere)

It seems a little weird that there aren't any meetings in the old pre-amalgamation City of Toronto. Hopefully, there will be a lot of people going to the meetings and bringing up the subject of cycling programs and facilities, as it's the parts of the city like Etobicoke, Scarborough and North York who really need it, as they were planned around automotive transportation, for the most part.

I'm going to try and make it to the East York meeting.

If you can't make any meetings, send Mayor Miller or David Soknacki and email explaining why you feel cycling is important (good reasons are fitness, the environment, less road congestion...), and I'm sure your city councillors would love to hear from you too.

Or, you can just contact the members of the Budget Advisory Committee directly. Here, I made this handy-dandy email link that you can use to email all the committee members at once.

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