The Best-Laid Bike Plans...

posted by Joe on 10/30/2006 | 0 Comments |

Two different perspectives on bikeplans:

The Spacing Wire focuses on a recent quote from Mayor Miller about how the Bike Plan has failed and how to have it succeed in the future:

"... the only way for the bike plan to succeed…is we have to bring the cycling community together with the neighbourhoods and get some strategic routes in the bike plan first. It has to be a political exercise, not a money exercise. We tried to do it with money and it hasn’t worked because of local opposition so now we have to try to work together with communities and cyclists,"

Meanwhile, up in York Region, Darren J has been noticing new bikeroute signs in Markham on his commute to work, with a possible bikelane even being added at one spot:

...this is a valuable first step. Not only can these lead to better or more extensive bicycle infrastructure in certain places, but the simple designation of Bike Routes is significant. This means the city has recognized that these roads are being used by cyclists.

Labels: infrastructure, politics