Petition for truck sideguards
Please sign this petition by MP Olivia Chow for sideguards on trucks to improve cyclists’, pedestrians’ and motorcyclists’ safety: http://www.oliviachow.ca/truck_sideguards_petition Thanks! Jackie
Ridge Meadows
Help wanted for Bike Tune-up Workshop
Our Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows HUB committee is planning a Spring Bike Tune-up Workshop and is looking for people who feel they have some skills to share. If you know how to fix a flat, adjust/fix brakes, change brake pads, lube and do other minor bike repairs and would like to teach others, we’d love to […]
Radio interview on CBC Radio The Early Edition, In Your Neighbourhood
Margaret Gallagher of CBC Radio The Early Edition, In Your Neighbourhood, was in Maple Ridge at the Port Haney WCE station/Billy Miner Friday Jan. 17 to talk to people about transportation issues. I found an interview with Graham Mowatt about transit at about 0:34, and I talked about cycling at about 2:19. Here’s the link.
Column The News: We need to stop suburban sprawl
My latest column in the Maple Ridge News: posted Jan 10, 2014 Municipal finance manager Paul Gill has, thankfully, publicly sounded the alarm about sprawl. Maple Ridge needs to change the way it grows. Undoubtedly Mr. Gill has explained this significant problem in more depth to our council members. So far, however, they’re happily continuing […]
Column The News: Which do you prefer, car or bike culture?
My latest column in the Maple Ridge News: is it possible to create a cycling culture in a car dominated city? posted Dec 18 Pitt Meadows is already a nice place to live if you like biking, but the city continues to look for ways to make it safer, more convenient and better. Pitt Meadows […]
Column: Only cars are not allowed on new path along Lougheed
Here’s HUB’s November cycling column in The News: Published: November 15, 2013 7:00 AM It continues to amaze me how some vocal bike lane opponents continue to be adamant that people on bikes do not deserve a safe place to ride. The most common reason is that “they don’t pay for the roads.” Don’t they? […]
NACTO Urban Street Design Guide and Bikeways Design Guide
It’s great to read and hear about all the wonderful changes that are happening in cities around North America now that city engineers and planners are realizing that if we continue to design our cities for cars, we just keep getting more cars, and livability will worsen in many ways as a consequence. We now […]
Multi-use path along Lougheed from 216th to Laity: photos
The multi-use path under construction along the north side of Lougheed from 216th to Laity is progressing well. Well before the end of the year we should be able to bike here:
Get involved: Pitt Meadows Active Transportation Advisory Committee
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows no longer have a joint Bicycle Advisory Committee. Pitt Meadows has decided to have its own Active Transportation Advisory Committee. For those who would like to get involved, this is a great opportunity to do so and help make cycling and walking in Pitt Meadows even better! Yesterday’s Times had […]
Don’t we live in a crazy world?
My latest column in the Maple Ridge News: Don’t we live in a crazy world? Published: October 10, 2013 3:00 PM I previously wrote about a motion by the City of Victoria at last month’s conference for the Union of B.C. Municipalities, for a reduced speed limit of 40 km/h on all residential streets. Unfortunately, it […]