---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Terry Zdan tjzdan50@gmail.com To: "at-network-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca" < at-network-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca>, Mark Cohoe mcohoe@casch.com, Anders Swanson andersswanson@gmail.com, jlukes jlukes@shaw.ca Cc: Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:03:15 -0500 Subject: Ontario Cycling Action Plan
" Quick Facts
- Since 2010, Ontario has added 112 kilometres of paved shoulders along provincial highways. - Ontario has introduced legislation to improve cycling safety. If passed, it would require motorists to maintain a distance of at least one metre while passing cyclists and introduce harsher penalties for dooring. - In 2010, two million Canadian visitors spent $391 million while cycling in Ontario -- an 18 per cent increase over the previous year. - According to the Canadian Medical Association, a 10 per cent increasehttp://policybase.cma.ca/dbtw-wpd/Policypdf/PD09-04.pdfin physical activity could reduce direct health care expenditures by $150 million a year. - Ontario has the second-lowest cycling injury rate of all Canadian provinces."
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/cycling/index.shtml
http://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2014/04/province-building-cycling-infrastructu...