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Promoting Cycling for Everyone as Daily Transport Mode
http://www.etra-eu.com/docs/PolicyGuide.pdf
Watch for 2010 dates.
Salt Spring Transit
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Salt Spring Cyclists Unite!
Why...
**Riding as a group can be an empowering experience - it feels safer, fun, and inspiring that we are many.
**Reclaim the streets as a place for cyclists to be visible and safe, and a place that cyclists and cars can coexist safely.
**Show Salt Spring that there are a lot of cyclists choosing to reduce vehicle trips and get around more sustainably.
**If you need an excuse to dust off your bike tires, look no further! This is not an olympic training event - we ride together, we take it as slow as we need to for the group to remain a "critical mass".
We ride single file along the main roads... then choose a safe and strategic time to ride en mass (taking a lane for a short period of time). We ride with a peaceful positive message - we're not blocking traffic, we ARE traffic. Join us anywhere along the route - we want to get as many cyclists out as possible!
* * * * * * Pass it on! * * * * * *
For an easy-to-read document on what municipal governments should be doing, Wheels for Change recommends The Sierra Club – BC Chapter’s ‘Cool Cities’ handout.
For further information, we recommend the following documents of the BC Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA):
- ‘Community Climate Challenge’ draft motion asking municipalities to match the targets of the BC government’s recent 2007 Speech from the Throne
- ‘Top Ten Actions for Municipal Leadership on Climate Change’ handout describing a plan of action for achieving these targets.
Wheels for Change recommends The Sierra Club – BC Chapter’s ‘Cool BC’ handout
Who Killed the Electric Car (pdf)
In Praise of Going SLOW (pdf)
Tonnes of Cars (pdf)
Island Pathways
Wheels for Change
Salt Spring Transit
Bus Schedule here
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