McCallion rejects bike lane plea (National Post)
"The roads were built for cars and trucks," Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion says.Cycling in toronto: Biking thrills in a tunnel of love (Belfast Telegraph)
Chris Hardwicke, a local Toronton architect, has drawn up a blueprint for a futuristic network of overground tunnels, designed purely for the use of cyclists and in-line skaters.From Bogotá to Mississauga Peñalosa works to create active citizens (Cycling Cog)
As parks commissioner in Bogotá he cleared the department of deadwood, "blazed a new network of walking trails, bike paths, parks both new and refurbished, and better transit links to all of them." He also turned the "Ciclovia", the city's regular Sunday bike ride on closed streets, from a 13-kilometre trek involving 150,000 cyclists and walkers through mostly affluent areas, into a city-wide, 91-kilometre event that attracts 1.5 million people of all income levels, every Sunday and holiday.
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