Week in review: February 20, 2018

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Consultations, feedback, and events

• CYCLING:
  • #CycleON strategy Action Plan 2.0, comments due March 7
  • Cambridge Cycling Focus Group looking for members, due Feb 27
  • Cycle tourism questionnaire
• TRANSIT: 2018 network public information centres, March 21, 22, April 4, 5, 10, 11
• UNIVERSITY AVE: Streetscape public consultation
• MHBPNA PRESENTS: Sustainable streets April 6
• LAND USE: Proposed methodology for land needs assessment for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, comments due Feb 28
• EMISSIONS: Guidelines on community emissions planning, comments due March 4
• GREENBELT: Growing the Greenbelt in the outer ring Feb 22, comments due March 7
• TAXES: Property tax policies, due March 2

On foot

• Uptown Waterloo to get rainbow crosswalk (Waterloo Chronicle)
• We should be building bridges not walls (Kitchener Post)

In transit

• Transit network changes public consultations announced (GRT)
• LRT vehicle testing moves deeper into Kitchener (CTV)
• Spending on King St. up since streetcar pilot began (The Star)

By bike

• Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t know how to increase biking in a city (People for bikes)
• How America’s bike helmet fixation upholds a culture of “unfettered automobility” (Streetsblog)

Vision Zero

• 5 things you can do right now to #slowthecars in your town (Strong Towns)

The shape of our cities

• Guelph, Waterloo Region among Canada’s fastest-growing areas (CTV)
• Renting will be more affordable in Cambridge, if city changes secondary suite process (CBC)
• Ontario’s failed downtown malls (Sean Marshall)
• The perilous politics of parking (The Economist)
• A small zoning change could have big implications for Lexington (Strong Towns)

The road ahead

• Waterloo Taxi’s Lokal app hopes to take on ridesharing (Waterloo Chronicle)
• All-female ridesharing service brings peace of mind for women (Kitchener Post)
• Is microtransit an actual idea? (Human Transit)
• Uber quarterly sales rose 61% to $2 billion amid heavy loss (Bloomberg)