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The City of Mississauga Cycling Office in collaboration with the Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee is hosting two presentations with the theme: Building a Cycling Culture on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 @ 7 – 9 p.m. Where: NOEL RYAN AUDITORIUM, Mississauga Central Library (FREE Underground Parking) 301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. (map) (Burnhamthorpe Rd. W. and [...] Who: Mississauga cycling citizens. What: QEW Credit River Bridge Study When: Saturday, March 5, 2011 Where: Huron Park Recreation Centre, Ojibway A Room, 830 Paisley Blvd W, Mississauga, Ontario (click for map). Why? We need your voice to be heard on this one! The QEW Credit River Bridge Environmental Assessement is a very significant infrastructure [...] Cyclists the world over are intrigued by the recycled Bicycle Christmas Tree which has been created in Sydney, Au stralia, near the famous Opera House. A MCAC member asked a contact there to send us on-the-spot photos, including detail showing how the tree was constructed. Click here for the amazing photos. There are many [...] On tour. Riders taking part in the Tour de Mississauga make their way north on Tenth Line this morning after starting their ride at Streetsville Memorial Park. There were various lengths of rides including a 25-kilometre family ride as well as 60 and 100K rides for avid cyclists who were up for a challenge. [...] 
This City may have been designed around the car (hey, it was the seventies), but the cycling retrofit is happening and MCAC is advocating hard for soonest implementation. The citizens want this, as shown during the Strategic Plan visioning exercise and the Cycling Master Plan, and Council gets it. [...] Last week we posted information on the inclusion of cycling in the Hurontario Corridor study which was titled, Hurontario-Main Cycling Integration. Since then, MCAC chairperson Jeff Wachman has sent the following note out to Matthew Williams, the Hurontario Corridor project leader: MCAC received an update on Hurontario corridor project and were very dismayed to read [...] The concept, which involves closing certain streets to make the paved space available for walking and cycling, has been slower to thrive here than in some places. In New York and Guadalajara, Mexico, the idea of Sunday ciclovias, a tradition in Bogota since the 1970s, has been embraced and modified to fit the landscape and residents. With the support of the Ontario minister of health promotion, Margarett Best, 8-80 Cities is pushing for more car-free Sundays in the Toronto region. And there are small signs of interest. [...] Wendy Gillis, a Master of Journalism student at Ryerson University, is looking for input from people who commute from the suburbs into downtown Toronto. With Mississaugans taking to the street more and more on their bikes, there should be plenty of experiences to share from cyclists in our city. Ms. Gillis has been assigned to [...] Helmets save lives. Just ask seven-year-old Lakeview resident Connor Moogk. On May 30, Connor was riding his bicycle near Orchard St. and Lakeshore Blvd. when he was struck by a pick-up truck. Connor, who was wearing a helmet, didn’t suffer any head injuries. He was rushed to hospital and, after a brief stay, was pronounced [...] Mississauga News – Sept. 9, 2009 Organizers of the second annual Tour de Mississauga cycling event are on a roll. The event, which attracted just 30 cyclists in its inaugural year, will this year offer an exhilarating ride to more than 100 riders of all ages and fitness levels. The non-competitive cycling event is organized by the Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee (MCAC). It leaves Sunday, Sept. 20 at 9 a.m. from J.C. Saddington Park in Port Credit. The tour will wind its way through Rattray Marsh, spin around the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus on Mississauga Rd. and wind its way to the… [...] |
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