Thank you so much to everyone who attended and who helped make this a
wonderful event. Wasn't expecting such a turnout. Thank you.
For those who asked for an online copy and especially for those who could
not attend, please find the film *Winter Cycling For Everyone *online here:
http://vimeo.com/activetransportation/wintercyclingforeveryone
To find more info on best practices from around the World, or to stay in
touch with the *International Winter Cycling Conference* happening in
Winnipeg Feb.12-13 2014, please check out:
wintercycling.org
To register now or to watch for details on *Winter Bike to Work Day* this
Feb.14, 2014 please visit:
winterbiketoworkday.org
Kind regards,
Anders
From: Julie Turenne-Maynard [mailto:exec_dir@riverswest.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:46 PM
To: Rivers West
Subject: International Trails Day
Grab your bike, your running shoes or your rollerskates and join us June 1st, 2013 for International Trails Day. It's free, it's healthy, and it's fun!
There will be workshops, geocaching, kids' activities and much more.
See attachment for more information
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Executive Director
Rivers West Red River Corridor Inc.
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From: Terry Zdan <tjzdan50(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:05:46 -0500
Subject: LCI Seminar in June- Register NOW - EUGENE
Dear Active Transportation Enthusiasts,
*This June (21st-23rd) the League of American
Bicyclists<http://www.bikeleague.org> is
holding an LCI Seminar in Eugene*. The last LAB Seminar in Eugene was over
5 years ago and annually there are fewer than a dozen around the country.
Registration so far has been too low to hold this Seminar and *there are
only a couple more days to register for this great opportunity*!* If you've
ever wanted to take your cycling to the next level and wanted to share your
knowledge of safe cycling skills with others this is a great opportunity!*
*
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Becoming a League Cycling Instructor (LCI) certified to teach Smart
Cycling is a great way to help cyclists in your community. Certified
instructors can teach Smart Cycling classes (like Traffic Skills 101) to
children as well as adults. Help bring the joy of safe cycling to others.
If you are an experienced cyclist and would like to teach others please
consider taking the next step towards certification. *Becoming a League
member and taking Traffic Skills 101 are prerequisites for a certification
seminar*. Instructors are trained at seminars held periodically throughout
the year. The training is Friday, June 21 (5:30-9pm), Saturday, June 22
(8am-4pm), and Sunday, June 23 (8am-4pm). Cost for the three day training
is $300.
To register you can download the course registration
form<http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/education/LCI_course_application.pdf>
or
go to the League's website, join <http://www.bikeleague.org/join/> and then
register via their Events calendar by clicking on the Eugene LCI
Seminar<https://bikeleague.secure.force.com/MN4__mnp_viewevent?id=a0kG0000001ZdfmIAC>
.
You must be a League member to register for the course (and to maintain the
LCI certification). If you have any questions contact Shane MacRhodes (
rhodes_sh(a)4j.lane.edu).
[image: LAB Logo]
Shane MacRhodes
League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor (#1050)
541-556-3553
shanerh(a)mac.com
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Terry Zdan
126 Duncan Norrie Drive
Wpg MB R3P 2J9
CANADA
tjzdan50(a)gmail.com <tjzdan(a)gmasil.com>
*Join us TODAY to...
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*Kick-off the 2013 Commuter Challenge!*
*11 a.m., Wednesday, May 29
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*Manitoba Hydro Building (Outdoor Plaza on Graham Ave)*
Celebrate the start of the 2013 Commuter Challenge with the Honourable
JimRondeau, Minister of Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs;
Stefano
Grande, Executive Director of the Downtown Winnipeg Biz; Lloyd Kuczek, Vice
President of Customer Care and Energy Conservation, Manitoba Hydro;
Commuter Challenge participant Maureen Peniuk; along with Ace Burpee and
Green Action Centre.
Walk, bike, bus or carpool -- let's celebrate a better way to get to work!
*Edmonton approves Complete Streets Policy*
The Complete Streets Policy was approved by City Council on May 22, 2013.
The policy and accompanying guidelines will encourage a holistic approach
to roadway design in order to develop a network of roadways that are safe,
attractive, comfortable and welcoming to all users.
Designing New Neighbourhoods, Edmonton’s Future Residential Communities
Policy was approved at the same time. The guidelines for this policy will
influence the physical structure and layout of our new neighbourhoods.
The Complete Streets Guidelines will be used for planning, designing and
constructing streets in new neighbourhoods. They will also guide the design
and reconstruction of streets in existing neighbourhoods.
Next steps for the Complete Streets projects team will be the
implementation of several complete streets pilot projects over the next few
years. Three pilot projects have already been identified as priority;
including one in a greenfield, a neighbourhood renewal and an arterial
renewal.
http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/city_vision_and_strategic_plan/compl…
[Hi, if you already received a personal message, sorry for any
cross-postings....and for accidentally not sending this to the network last
week. Note that your first chance to attend is today at lunch. See details
below. cheers! anders]
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From: Anders Swanson <andersswanson(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Subject: Invitation: Winter Cycling for Everyone - Film and Discussion
This week, you're "warmly" invited to attend a fun event about magical
places and making the most of winter.
See details below. Poster attached.
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*WINTER CYCLING *
*FOR EVERYONE*
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*Lunchtime Monday May 27th*
MPI Theatre downtown in City Place (2nd floor, east side, door north of
elevators).
12:00 noon - 1:00pm
*OR*
*Evening Thursday May 30th *
Winnipeg Free Press Cafe in The Exchange. Arthur @ McDermot.
Doors at 6:00pm.
6:30pm - 8ish.
*Both events feature: *
- a short film about experiencing and exploring a landscape full of
people and bikes and snow.
- "Oulu and the top winter cycling cities of the world": a short
presentation by Timo Perälä remote from Oulu, Finland. Mr. Perälä is
the CEO of Navico ltd., a small consulting firm specializing in mobility
management. He holds a masters degree in civil engineering (construction
economics) and has completed several studies and projects related to winter
cycling and winter maintenance throughout Finland. Timo directed the 2013
international winter cycling congress - the only event of its kind bringing
together experts in the field from around the world - and goes regularly by
bike year-round himself (no lycra, just a cruiser).
- Refreshments provided.
*Thursday Evening Only*
- Panel discussion: A big-ideas panel featuring Paul Jordan, COO of the
Forks, Councillor Justin Swandel, design whiz Andrea Tetrault and speaker
Timo Perälä. Moderated by Bartley Kives.
- Exciting event announcements.
- Hors d'oeuvres provided. Alcohol available.
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Seating is limited. RSVPs appreciated but not required.
Hope to see you there!
Anders Swanson
Bike Winnipeg and Green Action Centre would like to invite you to join us
in the EcoCentre (3rd floor, 303 Portage Ave) for a three-part webinar
series on the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design
Guide<http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/design-guide/>
. Each webinar will be followed by group discussion of local applications.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about this fantastic resource on
cycling design and discover how cities across North America are embracing
the designs and advice laid out in this guide to improve their cities
cycling experience and encourage an ever increasing number of their
residents to choose their bikes over their cars. As the city is currently
in the process of developing its first cycling and pedestrian strategies,
the timing for these webinars could not be better.
RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. Hope to see you then!
*#1, Bikeway Design at Intersections*
Wednesday, May 29 | 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. CDT
Safe, effective intersection design requires visibility and predictability
among all street users. In unpredictable urban environments, achieving
these goals can be difficult. Bikeway Design at Intersections provides an
overview of the intersection treatments in the NACTO guide, including bike
boxes, bicycle signals and mixing zones, and analyzes how to resolve and
mitigate several complex intersection design problems that commonly arise.
Presenters:
Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator, City of Portland
Jamie Parks, Senior Transportation Planner, City of Oakland
*#2, Bikeway Design in Context: Determining the right facility for the
right street*
Wednesday, June 5 | 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. CDT
As bikeway design options have multiplied and evolved, the decision-making
process for practitioners has become increasingly complex. What kinds of
streets are best suited to cycle tracks? When should an engineer use a
buffered bike lane rather than a conventional bike lane? Are shared lane
markings appropriate for busy streets or only on local roads? This session
will analyze the decision-making process that different cities go through
when answering such questions, looking beyond speed and ADT to consider
elements as varied as context, parking, transit routes and street width.
Presenters:
Joshua Benson, Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Director, New York City
Department of Transportation
Nathan Wilkes, Associate Traffic Engineer, Neighborhood Connectivity
Division, City of Austin
*#3, Next Generation Bikeway Design: Raised cycle tracks *
Wednesday, June 26 | 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. CDT
While many cities have relied primarily on signs and markings to radically
transform their streets, a growing number of bikeways around the country
have been improved and made permanent using higher cost materials, curb
relocation and complex engineering. This session will look at two
facilities that embody long term solutions for city streets. How can cities
effectively move the curb without creating drainage problems? What "green”
infrastructure solutions can be incorporated into these new bikeways? What
are the highest and lowest cost alternatives to these designs?
Presenters:
Wendy Cawley, Engineer, City of Portland
Karen Haley, Executive Director, Indianapolis Cultural Trail
Jennifer Tower, Engineer, City of Portland
Cheers,
--
Mark Cohoe
Executive Director
Bike Winnipeg (formerly Bike to the Future)
Millennials Lead the Trend to Less Driving, But What Happens As They Get
Older?Emily Badger
<http://www.theatlanticcities.com/authors/emily-badger/>| May 14, 2013
Find full article and graphs here:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/05/planning-our-transportatio…
It is unquestionably true that Americans are driving less today than we did
just a few years ago. Sometime around 2004, our addiction to driving –
expressed on a graph in the decades-long steep expansion of “vehicle miles
traveled” – took a turn in the opposite direction. Per capita, we began to
drive fewer miles each year than we had the year before. As the U.S.
population has continued to grow, our collective miles traveled by car has
begun to stagnate.
It’s not entirely clear, though, exactly why this has happened or whether
the downturn will continue, two questions intimately tied to the behavior
of Millennials as they age. Twenty-something Americans drive about 20
percent less today than their parents did in *their* 20s. But is that
because of the recession? High gas prices? A lasting shift in consumer
demand? What will happen to today’s 20-year-olds as they enter their 30s,
raise families, and consider moving to the suburbs?
This question lurks behind every celebrated trend story about the
Millennial generation: Will this group really push systemic change (as the
baby boomers did) in how Americans live, work and relate to each other
(sharing cars, for instance, as opposed to owning them)? Or is this moment
– with its associated driving patterns – a hiccup in history?
"We've basically assumed in transportation planning for decades upon
decades that the amount of vehicle travel and per capita VMT can go in only
one direction, and that's up," says Tony Dutzik, a senior policy analyst
for the Frontier Group <http://www.frontiergroup.org>, a public interest
think tank. "And we have been planning our transportation system based on
that assumption."
Data from the last few years clearly show that this axiom is no longer
true.So what happens next? In an effort to at least sketch out some of
the
possible scenarios, the Frontier Group and the US PIRG Education
Fund<http://www.uspirgedfund.org/>today released a report outlining
three
alternative futures <http://uspirg.org/reports/usp/new-direction> for
America's relationship to the car.
One assumes that Millennials will eventually revert to the driving patterns
of their parents (the blue "Back to the Future" scenario on the below
graph). The second assumes that America is in the midst of an enduring
shift toward less driving, brought about in large part by the permanent new
preferences of Millennials. And the last scenario assumes that the recent
decline we've seen in driving will continue apace.
Notably, all three scenarios project car usage well below the status quo we
might expect based on the last 50 years of driving trends (even with a
growing population).
"Thus far in the transportation community, the question of declining
vehicle miles traveled and declining gas tax revenues has been thought of
as a revenue problem. There’s not enough money coming in to deal with the
needs that we think we have," Dutzik says. "There's another important part
of that question that we really haven’t addressed: What is it we think
we're actually going to need for the future?"
What if we don’t need to find funding to for quite so many highway
expansions?
"If the Millennial trend continues to play out," Dutzik says, "the amount
of highway capacity we’re going to need in the future looks far different
than it looked in government projections from just a few years ago."
Dutzik and report co-author Phineas Baxandall constructed these scenarios
by trying to "layer on the unknowable over the knowable." Namely, we don’t
how Millennials will behave in the future. But we do know that their
parents, from the baby boom generation, will soon begin aging out of the
workforce in massive numbers. And when you no longer have to drive to work,
that cuts a sizable chunk out of your car consumption (the 2009 National
Household Travel Survey estimated that commuting trips accounted for 27.7
percent of household VMT).
With these underlying demographic trends in mind, the "Back to the Future"
scenario makes the assumption that Millennials will drive about as much at
age 35 as their parents did at that same age, and so on as they get older.
The other two scenarios are built on something of a mystery. Researchers
have not yet been able to disaggregate how much of our current decline in
driving has been attributable to gas prices, or the economy, or changing
attitudes toward car ownership or urban living. But it’s been driven by *
something.* And in these two futures, Dutzik says, “whatever constellation
of things it is that has caused the shift in per capita driving over the
last decade – we think that’s a real thing.”
The way we work has also been changing, alongside the demographic shape of
the workforce itself. And this trend, which the report did not address,
could drive down VMT even further, as more people telecommute or join the
freelance economy.
In all of these scenarios, Dutzik assumes that we're unlikely to ever
surpass our 2004 peak in per capita driving. Today, we individually drive
about 7 percent less than we did in 2004 (or at levels comparable to 1996).
It’s plausible we could return to that peak, but many of the factors that
drove us there no longer exist: cheap gas, the growing baby boom workforce,
women entering the workforce for the first time.
Millennials will inevitably wind up driving more than they do today as they
age. This is virtually always true of people in their 20s as they enter
their 30s and beyond. Certain stages of life demand more use of a car than
others. But the question is: by how much? And by how much compared to their
parents?
Emily Badger is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities. Her work has
previously appeared in *Pacific Standard*, *GOOD*, *The Christian Science
Monitor*, and *The New York Times*. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area
[Follow up to Erik and Shoni's postings yesterday about the Physical
Activity scorecard.]
Remember walking to school? Well, your kids probably don't
By: Lauren La Rose
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/remember-walking-to-sch…
TORONTO -- Fewer Canadian kids are commuting by walking or biking as a new
report reveals a marked decline among young people using active modes of
transportation.
Active Healthy Kids Canada released its annual Report Card on Physical
Activity for Children and Youth on Tuesday, assigning a "D" grade in the
category of active transportation. A "D minus" grade was given for overall
physical activity levels.
Children who use active transport for commutes to and from school can
accumulate up to 45 additional minutes daily of moderate- to
vigorous-intensity physical activity compared to kids travelling by car,
train or bus.
Yet in Canada, a recent survey revealed that while 58 per cent of parents
walked to school when they were children, only 28 per cent of their own
kids were doing the same today.
"That's a reduction of 50 per cent in one generation. That's substantial by
any estimate," said Mark Tremblay, chief scientific officer of Active
Healthy Kids Canada.
>From 2000 to 2010, the percentage of youth aged 5-17 using only inactive
modes of transportation for school commutes increased from 51 per cent to
62 per cent.
The report found many data sources in different age groups suggested only
25 to 35 per cent of Canadian kids and youth use active transport to and
from school. Among youth aged 15 to 17, time spent walking daily dipped
from 17 minutes to 11 minutes between 1992 and 2010.
Tremblay said active transportation is among "a whole bunch of pieces" that
contribute to physical activity levels, along with other key components
such as active play, organized sports participation and physical education.
Tremblay said there may be instances where schools are too far away for
youngsters to commute by their own power. But research shows many examples
where high numbers of kids are being ferried to destinations within a
walking or biking distance, he noted.
"There are kids that live 25 kilometres from the school. They can't walk or
bike. And so we get that," said Tremblay, director of Healthy Active Living
and Obesity Research Group at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Research Institute.
"But can those kids walk or bike to other things that are going on in their
community? To their friend's house? To the baseball (diamond), which might
be a couple of kilometres down the road?
"This isn't just about to and from school.... We're talking about any
trips."
If kids walked for all trips less than one kilometre in distance, it would
translate, on average, to 2,238 additional steps each day -- or around 15
to 20 minutes of walking, the report said.
Tremblay said living in an auto-dependent society has made the process of
commuting by car the norm.
"It's not even part of our consciousness. We just hop into the car and it's
not like we ever thought: 'Why didn't we walk there?' Because our frame of
reference of distances to walk has reduced so much over time that we don't
consider it a possibility.
"A kilometre, two kilometres, three kilometres, which are totally walkable
(distances) and can be very enjoyable... it just doesn't cross our minds --
and so we don't think of it for our kids, either."
Time, money and safety are the three key barriers to kids being more
physically active, said Kelly Murumets, president & CEO of ParticipAction.
Active transportation offers a simple, cost-effective, accessible way for
parents to help ensure kids are getting the activity they need without
having to pay for organized sport, she noted.
In instances where kids are able to travel on foot, using pedal power or
some other means of active transport, Murumets said parents can organize
walking school buses or bicycle caravans with a volunteer adult or group of
parents convening with youngsters to commute en masse.
"Kids are getting physical activity, they have social time, they're with
other kids, they're safe because they're supervised, (and) some of the
parents who do work are able to make their way to the office," Murumets
said.
*-- The Canadian Press*
*Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 22, 2013 D4*