Woodstock ON - Plan a plus for pedestrians

City pedestrians and cyclists should like the recommendations contained in Woodstock's Transportation Master Plan. With proposed cycling lanes and the potential for new signalized pedestrian crossings, this big-picture look at Woodstock transportation could help promote what acting city engineer Harold de Haan called "active transportation"

Vancouver’s new fleet of cargo tricycles

Tricycles could soon be coming to Vancouver’s bike lanes – and they’ll be hauling much more than balance-challenged preschoolers. A group of postsecondary students will launch a business in May that will use cargo tricycles to deliver goods around the city’s downtown core. The business is the first of its kind in Vancouver and will feature specially made bikes that can carry up to 270 kilograms of cargo, anything from office supplies to furniture.

Low-power electric bikes allowed on trail

Disabled people will be permitted to use low-powered electric bicycles on much of the Great Allegheny Passage hiking and biking trail under new rules that were approved on Wednesday. The Regional Trail Corp. board moved to comply with a federal mandate designed to make it easier for disabled people to use recreational trails. In addition to continuing to allow wheelchairs, the new rules permit electric bikes powered by no more than 250 watts, weighing less than 100 pounds, less than 36 inches wide with pedals that can be manually operated.

Here’s how Metro Vancouver cities stack up for cyclists

Given oil prices, new technologies, and public-health mandates demanding that the population get more active, Price said it isn't surprising that bike lanes both spring up and rankle some people. “This is very disruptive stuff,” he said. “It's upsetting a lot of people's assumptions about the way the world should be ordered.”

Mexico City Government To Expand Bike-Sharing Program

Mexico City's municipal government in 2011 is planning to broadly expand a bicycle-sharing program that found enthusiastic acceptance in its first year.

West Virginia - Trails and Active Transportation

In tough economic times, governments have to make the most of every tax dollar spent. "at’s why active transportation (walking and bicycling) projects stand out: With fewer federal dollars available, these projects can be completed at a low cost, are highly popular and significantly improve mobility.

San Diego - Billions proposed for bike lanes, pedestrian-friendly streets

Transportation planners have proposed spending $2.58 billion building bicycle paths and improving streets for pedestrians in San Diego County over the next 40 years.

You read that right: billion.

State of Colorado Bicycle and Pedestrian Program resource order form

This order form shows an impressive list of resources available free of charge to communities or individuals who are attempting to prmote cycling in their neighbourhood. Please notice that all these resources are available through the State of Colorado Department of Transportation.

Can anyone in Canada make a similar claim for their Department of Transportation? (except Quebec, of course).

USDOT Traffic Safety Facts - Bicyclists and Other Cyclists

A five page summary of cycling crash/injury/fatality statistics from 2009 prepared by the US Department of Transportation presented in various forms and keyed to several different factors.

[Why is it that similar information is unavailable in Canada? -MH]

How bicycling will save the economy (if we let it)

There aren't very many economic scenarios in this country where everyone wins. But if you had to choose one single thing that could pull our neighborhoods, towns, and cities out of this murky pit of a recession, you'd do well to bet on the humble bicycle.