Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows

My latest column in the Maple Ridge News:posted Jan 10, 2014Municipal 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 down the same sprawling […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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:

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 […]

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 […]

The District has just finished repaving and restriping the section of Lougheed between Kanaka Way and 116th Ave. (Telosky Hill, by Thomas Haney Secondary School) this week. We had asked the Engineering Department to make the car lanes narrower and the shoulders wider, especially on the north side, where previously closer to 116th Ave. the […]

By Jackie Chow – Maple Ridge NewsPublished: September 12, 2013 Something interesting that I read about this week: according to a survey done in the Netherlands earlier this year, nine per cent of respondents got rid of their cars last year to save money, to cope with the effects of the financial crisis. Like in […]

Carley O’Rourke in the People in Motion Parade We were so lucky yesterday at our 3rd GETI Fest. It was dry the whole day, and the sun even came out! So I was happy, even though we saw relatively few people on their bikes. I was hoping that, now in our 3rd year, even if […]