On one hand, a car might get scratched on a concrete bollard.

But on the other hand, a person might get killed after the car runs over the flexible bollards. 🤔

* glances over at concrete road medians, concrete bollards in parking lots, and concrete curbs everywhere. *

#SafeStreetsSaveLives

If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development

The Guardian

This is a map of car collisions in #Guelph from 2023.

Now look at the $0 in Guelph's City Budget for our Active Transportation Network over the next 10 years. It was gutted by Cam Guthrie's latest budget updates.

Make it make sense.

#BikeGuelph #GuelphTransit #SafeStreetsSaveLives #Urbanism

Guelph mayor looks to pause new bike lane installation

'I think we could do better,' Mayor Cam Guthrie said of bike lane infrastructure

GuelphToday.com
A long pro-bike protest just rolled by on Bloor St. Took maybe 10 min to pass. Our pigheaded Premier here thinks by ripping bike lanes out of downtown #Toronto he can reduce congestion (false), pander to his base, and get reelected if he calls an early election by stoking urban/suburban division (probably true). #SafeStreetsSaveLives #TOPoli #ONPoli #CycleToronto #Bikestodon #Urbanism

Action Alert! Join us on Thursday, November 21, as we deliver Ghost Bikes to Queen's Park while the government wraps up its reading of Bill 212, the anti-bike lane legislation. We'll meet at Matt Cohen Park at 5:00 PM, with the ride departing at 5:30 PM. We'll arrive at Queen's Park at 5:45 PM.

https://www.facebook.com/share/12Ah6RySTDP/

#TOPoli #BikeTO #CycleTO #SafeStreetsSaveLives #Bill212 #DougFord #Urbanism #BikeTooter

Final Reading of Bill 212 - Ghost Bike Delivery to Queen's Park

Event in Toronto by David Shellnutt and 6 others on Thursday, November 21 2024 with 120 people interested and 68 people going. 5 posts in the discussion.

#DougFord's Ontario conservatives had no interest in listening or discussing in good faith.

#SafeStreetsSaveLives #Urbanism #TOPoli #ONPoli #CAPoli #Bill212

Letters were read from 122 ER doctors opposing #Bill212 as well as the CEOs of Mount Sinai and Sick Kids on Toronto's hospital row.

A Mount Sinai Hospital survey found that 63% of staff bike to work along the university avenue bike lanes Doug Ford wants to rip out.

#ThugFord #ONPoli #TOPoli #DOFO #SafeStreetsSaveLives

https://schoolofcities.github.io/bike-share-toronto/growth

University of Toronto designed a dashboard to show bike share usage in Toronto.

* Winter 2024 (Dec-Feb) had 776,744 trips which is more than Summer 2017's 569,177 trips.
* The first full year saw 665,000 trips in 2015. There were 5,700,000 trips in 2024.

#Bikestodon #SafeStreetsSaveLives #Urbanism #Toronto #TOPoli #ONPoli

Bike Share Toronto Growth

Visualizing Bike Share system expansion and ridership growth trends in Toronto

DoFo Blues

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