Great work is being done by the good people at the Toronto Coalition for Active Transport (TCAT) lately.

TCAT has published a ward-by-ward list of all proposed bikelanes and improvements to the Bikeway Network, so every Torontonian can find out what is at least planned in their neighbourhood... and they can use the handy-dandy candidates list at whorunsthistown.to to contact countil candidates and ask them if they support these improvements.


Unfortunately, almost every politician will give lip-service to cycling issues until actually elected, so it's important to try and keep them accountable, or at least get more and more cyclists out on the roads so that politicians will actually start paying attention.

Following up on a couple great articles by Christopher Hume in the Star (about the enlightenment of cycling infrastructure and congestion charging in Stockholm, Sweden), Martin Koob of TCAT has a great letter to the Star about the lack of progress on the bikeplan, and about TCAT:

Hume is also correct that it will take a critical mass of cyclists before real change starts to occur on Toronto's streets. Fortunately, that critical mass is already taking shape and one of the clearest expressions of this growing consensus is the formation of the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT). TCAT is a coalition of more than 16 community groups and businesses which endorses a practical vision for improving active transportation in Toronto.

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