The NO voting councillors (Mead-Ward, Sharman, Taylor, Goldring) proclaimed they supported cycling! Look at the capital budget projects and and a new ActiveTransportation Master Plan as evidence they cried.
Sorry, but the evidence states otherwise. Below is Burlington's bike network after 15 years of councils that "supported cycling" in Burlington. This council squandered a golden opportunity to add to the network.
However, even with the lack of a safe, continuous network of bike lanes, more people cycle & walk than take the bus! Impossible you say! In one of the largest surveys in North America, Transportation Tomorrow contacted residents by letter and phone to understand their urban travel needs. The results below are for 3 years and show that more people cycle in Halton that ride buses.
In every year, in every measurement, more people made trips by cycling than by local transit.
Imagine the numbers if a fraction of the enormous annual funding given to transit was channelled to cycling infrastructure - and it would only be for 1 year, unlike the annual subsidy given to transit.
Hey Gene! ++++++++++++1 On your last 2 posts!! Excellent reporting. It is so frustrating that the no side won that vote. I wonder what it will take to bring Councillors Taylor, Sharman and Meed-Ward into the light???
ReplyDeleteThanks Cynthia for kind words.
ReplyDeleteWell, we know its NOT data, evidence or factual reports that will do it. What does that leave ..???
Burlington spends $12 million per year on transit. How council could vote against an $80,000 proposal to put bike lanes on Lakeshore is shocking.
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