Posts Tagged ‘ Toronto ’

The Logic of LRT’s vs. Ford’s Subway

A few points of basic logic to consider when comparing Toronto Tranist City's Sheppard East LRT vs. the Ford Subway line[ READ MORE ]

A Day of Firsts for Ford

Today's events should be a telling reminder of what we can look forward to during at least one term of reactionary, pandering, and short-sighted politics here in Toronto, and the backlash driven political desires of it's dispossessed suburbs[ READ MORE ]

GoogleMap and Go

If you think about it, you couldn’t blame Cyclists for hoping that at least a few intriguing new technological developments might come out of a geek-powered event named the Sustainable Mobility Summit.  Thankfully that’s exactly what happened this past week at the 2010 Summit held in Ottawa Ontario, where Google Maps announced that its new Bike Directions [ READ MORE ]

Personal Responsibility

Representatives from The Toronto Police and Traffic Services have had to step up public awareness of basic safety issues after 16 pedestrians have been injured in only 2 days. The most regrettable accidents are the ones that could easily have been avoided, and this particular rash of incidents points to many small factors that are entirely [ READ MORE ]

Shops: West Side Cycle

Autumn is the perfect time to take stock of your cycling sitation, especcially if you could use some extra help from some seasoned Pro's now that they have abit of extra time to spare after the Summer rush...Here's where out list of great Bike Shops starts[ READ MORE ]

Relative Mass

Here's a great little piece of German PR that really helps put a proper perspective on how so many many more people could manage to peacefully use public roadways everyday... if they weren't taking up so much more space with single-occupancy cars[ READ MORE ]

Critical Mass

Biased news coverage of the G20 protests, and the brutal responses from police forces, offers examples of how effective PR can be bent as a deceptive tool against the People that it can otherwise faithfully serve[ READ MORE ]

Protesters vs. Police PR

At Toronto's G20 Summit, police repeatedly demonstrated overzealous reactions, but incredulously also allowed a minority of thugs and hooligans to create isolated spectacles for the largely impotent mainstream media coverage to spin into justification for more oppressive brutality. This now appears to be another classic case of propaganda methods playing themselves out again and again[ READ MORE ]

Bikes on Buses are a PR Bust

Torontonians haven't been encouraged to clearly consider how Cycling and Transit are becoming natural partners when longer distances need to be covered, and the viability of this Transit option remains under-developed. Of course, anybody who was waiting for the Press or Mainstream Media to illustrate why Car Culture and Conspicuous Consumption might not be in their best long term interests, would likely be indifferent at best on this subject....if not worse[ READ MORE ]

A Pedestrian’s Prerogatives?

It seems the universal "Right of Way" for pedestrians has bred complacency and perhaps even a false sense of entitlement. Let's start with how this sense of impunity impacts Cyclists, and just extrapolate from there on how Pedestrians contribute to traffic jamming in general[ READ MORE ]

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