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Counties adopt paved-shoulders policy

Recorder & Times / Wayne Lowrie / 24 January 2020

The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville will begin paving the shoulders of major counties roads when they are rebuilt.

The paved-shoulders policy, long advocated by cyclists and safety experts, was approved unanimously by counties council this week.

Adding a 1.5-metre paved strip on each side of a new road would add about $35,000 per kilometre to construction costs, Arup Mukherjee, public works director, told council in a report.

And although the paved shoulders would be widely used by cyclists, Mukherjee cautioned that they wouldn’t be called bike lanes.

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Modified Active Transportation Plan passes

Transition Brockville / 19 January 2020

City of Brockville staff have confirmed that, with the motion passed by Council this week, the City now has an Active Transportation Plan (ATP) in place, qualifying it for funding under some upper tier government programs.

As explained in a misleadingly-titled Recorder & Times article, this plan includes modifications, but is largely based on the draft ATP submitted by the consulting firm Alta Planning last September.

[ R&T ARTICLE ]

Town counts on transit, urban design to protect rural flavour

The Energy Mix / 06 December 2019

Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as the garden city movement of the early 20th century, Israel’s cooperative moshavs, and the annual Burning Man event, the town council of Innisfil, Ontario has developed a new model of suburban intensification built around nature, two wheels, and walking, in a bid to protect the good things about rural life […]

Architect and design leader Alex Josephson of Toronto-based Partisans said the “next-generation community” will be “for people who want access to a big city, but also nature and everything that comes with living in a rural community.”

Combining the customary grid-based street plan of today’s typical development with “some degree of irregularity, and lots of cut-throughs for pedestrians,” the Orbit is “radical,” the Globe and Mail writes. That’s a characterization that suits Innisfil just fine, as it moves to preserve its rural essence even as it “faces huge pressure to grow from its current 36,000 people”.

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TB comments on Brockville’s draft Active Transportation Plan

Transition Brockville / 11 November 2019

Steering Committee member Patricia Sutherland presented TB’s position on the City’s draft Active Transportation Plan at the public meeting of the Planning and Operations Committee on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Stark differences on bike lanes

Recorder & Times / Ronald Zajac / 06 November 2019

They are pedalling in opposite directions, but the two sides in Brockville’s bike lanes debate stayed in their lanes on Tuesday.

Supporters of the city’s proposed active transportation plan touted its health and social benefits, while opponents, focused mainly on plans to put bike lanes on Laurier Boulevard and Windsor Drive, worried about traffic safety in that area.

So intense was the interest in the matter that city council’s planning and operations committee moved the venue of Tuesday’s public meeting from city hall to the Brockville Arts Centre. But while the debate remains as polarized as ever, committee chairman Coun. Mike Kalivas thanked the many participants for keeping the debate civil and proceeding in a “very classy way.”

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2019 EOAT Summit presentations

Eastern Ontario Active Transportation Network / 11 July 2019

It’s hard to believe it’s been a month since the 6th annual Eastern Ontario Active Transportation Summit which was held Long Sault on June 13th.

Thank you to everyone who attended. The room was packed with representatives from various sectors from all over Eastern Ontario (and several from outside our region). The day was packed with amazing speakers, fantastic networking, and enriching discussions and I think it’s safe to say that most of us left feeling (re)energized to tackle active transportation in our own communities.

Without further ado – we are pleased to share that we’ve posted the presentation slides for all to access as well as a slide show of pictures from the day: https://walkandrollcornwallsdg.ca/events/eoats-2019/

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In passing

So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent… Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have entered upon a period of danger…. The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…. We cannot avoid this period, we are in it now….

— Winston Churchill