University of Victoria geographer helps track cycling hazards

As a geographer who commutes 10 kilometres a day for work and loves to ride with her children, ages three and six, Trisalyn Nelson has three excellent reasons to champion bike safety. As Lansdowne research chair of spatial sciences at the University of Victoria, she has helped create a way to do it: BikeMaps.org. Launched this week, the mapping website allows cyclists to track danger spots, crashes, near misses and bike thefts, while letting other cyclists know about them. Read more.