Week in review: July 29, 2017

News July 29, 2017 Mike Boos 1 Comment

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Consultations, feedback, and events

TRANSPORTATION CAMP: Sunday July 30 in Toronto
ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
KITCHENER:
- Urban Forest
- Volunteers needed for BikeCheck valet
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT: New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION: Trade-offs in transportation
PROVINCE: Bill 139, Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, comments due August 14

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Week in review: July 22, 2017

News July 22, 2017 Mike Boos

Consultations, feedback, and events

ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
KITCHENER:
- Urban Forest
- Volunteers needed for BikeCheck valet
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT: New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION: Trade-offs in transportation
PROVINCE: Bill 139, Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, comments due August 14

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When is BRT not BRT?

Buses, Transit July 18, 2017 Mike Boos 3 Comments

Oops. This one slipped past us. Sometime, about a year or two ago, the Region quietly dropped the ‘a’ from aBRT (adapted Bus Rapid Transit) when referring to improved bus priority for express buses on the central transit corridor in Cambridge.

But ION buses aren’t fully rapid transit. (more…)

Week in review: July 15, 2017

News July 15, 2017 Mike Boos

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Consultations, feedback, and events

OPEN “STREETS”: July 16, Uptown Waterloo
ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
KITCHENER:
- Urban Forest
- Volunteers needed for BikeCheck valet
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT:
- New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION:
- Victoria and Westmount, potential multi-use paths, comments due July 20
- Trade-offs in transportation
PROVINCE: Bill 139, Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, comments due August 14

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Week in review: July 8, 2017

News July 8, 2017 Mike Boos

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Consultations, feedback, and events

ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
KITCHENER:
- Urban Forest
- Volunteers needed for BikeCheck valet
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT:
- New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION:
- Victoria and Westmount, potential multi-use paths, comments due July 20
- Trade-offs in transportation
PROVINCE: Bill 139, Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, comments due August 14

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Week in review: July 2, 2017

News July 2, 2017 Mike Boos 1 Comment

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Consultations, feedback, and events

ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
WATERLOO: Draft zoning bylaw, comments due July 4
KITCHENER: Urban Forest
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT:
- New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION:
- Victoria and Westmount, potential multi-use paths, comments due July 20
- Trade-offs in transportation

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Week in review: June 24, 2017

News June 24, 2017 Mike Boos

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ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
WATERLOO:
- Draft zoning bylaw, comments due July 1
- Light rail station area Official Plan Amendment, June 26
KITCHENER:
- Urban Forest
- Duke and Ontario parking garage
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT:
- New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION:
- Victoria and Westmount, potential multi-use paths, June 27
- Trade-offs in transportation

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Week in review: June 17, 2017

News June 17, 2017 Mike Boos

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Consultations, feedback, and events

ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
OPEN “STREETS”: June 18 Uptown Waterloo
WATERLOO: Draft zoning bylaw, comments due July 1
KITCHENER:
- Urban Forest
- Duke and Ontario parking garage
CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
TRANSIT:
- New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
REGION:
- Victoria and Westmount, potential multi-use paths, June 27
- Trade-offs in transportation
CLIMATE ACTION: Our Progress, Our Path, June 22

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Blazing a trail or blasé signed routes?

Cycling, News, Walking June 14, 2017 Mike Boos 2 Comments

You get what you pay for. It’s a pithy saying, but it holds a lot of truth – if you’re not willing to invest enough to make something work, it most likely won’t.

The phrase has significance to the proposed trail connection between the Iron Horse Trail and the future transit hub at King and Victoria. If costs become the sole focus in planning, this trail will not attract people to walk and bike along it to get to the hub. Unfortunately, that may be the road we’re going down, literally.

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