Week in review: July 24, 2018

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Consultations, feedback, and events

• CYCLING:
  • Your ideas wanted for a “minimum grid” of protected cycling routes
  • Survey on updating the Ontario Traffic Manual Book 18: Cycling Facilities
  • Kitchener’s Workshop on Wheels, July 28, 31, August 1, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 25
  • Pedestrian & Cycling Connection on Bedford Rd and Sydney St S, July 25
• TRANSIT TALK: GRT’s New Directions, July 30, August 8, 15, 29, September 5, 10, 25
• VOTE: Check to see if you are registered to vote in the upcoming municipal elections

Walking

• 2 years later, LRT tracks still divide Traynor-Vanier neighbourhood (CBC)
• Vanier/Traynor informal pedestrian crossing (Regional Councillor Jane Mitchell’s Blog)
• Cambridge councillors question potential fix for Beverly St underpass (Cambridge Times)
• A pedestrian bill of rights (Transportist)

Cycling

• Kitchener to hold sidewalk meeting about new trail connection (The Record)
• $2.6 million trail project in Waterloo Park is now complete (Waterloo Chronicle)
• Cycling in Uptown: we’ve still got a long way to go (Tenille Bonoguore)
• Guelph police launch bike registry program as theft stats show spike (CBC)
• Why more urban cycling saves everyone money (Daily Hive)
• In case you forgot: biking is for everyone (Mobility Lab)
• Bike advocacy’s blind spot (CityLab)
• Equity and mobility: a comic treatment for transportation professionals (Planetizen)

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Transit

• Two more light rail vehicles arrive in Waterloo Region (The Record)
• ION stations tested for accessibility (The Record)
• Why Canadian cities are asking Kingston for public transit advice (TVO)
• Governments must help take the wheel from Greyhound (The Record)
• Inclusive transit: advancing equity through improved access & opportunity (TransitCenter)
• The absurdity of counting bus routes (Human Transit)

The shape of our cities

• Engagement, tall towers top-of-mind for Kitchener’s downtown candidates (Kitchener Post)
• Inclusionary zoning: everything you need to know (CityLab)
• Parking: where we embrace socialism in the US (City Observatory)
• American cities are drowning in parking supply (Streetsblog)