Advising that the Toronto Cycling Committee, at its meeting held on September 23, 2002, requested the Planning and Transportation Committee to approve the following motion:

“Whereas the Greater Toronto Area is the only large urban centre that does not have bike racks on transit buses;
And Whereas part of the Toronto Bike Plan promotes a seamless partnership between cyclists and public transit;
Therefore Be It Resolved That the Mayor of the City of Toronto, as a representative to Go Transit, request the Authority:

(a) to promote a bicycle friendly policy;
(b) to consider purchasing transit buses complete with bike racks; and
(c) to implement a consistent policy across Go Transit dealing with bicycles on transit buses.”

This motion will go to the Planning and Transportation Committee on November 4th, 2002 (see agenda-PDF) for consideration. If you would like to see this come to pass please contact the Councillors on the committee. If one of these Councillors is the Councillor from your ward let them know. The opinion of their constituents carries more weight than that of someone from outside their ward.

If you want to find who is your councillor and their contact info the go to this page. and type in your street address.

I have listed the Councillors who are on the Committee below. Click on their names to get their Contact or click on their email addresses to send them an email.

Planning and Transportation Committee
Chair
Gerry Altobello Ward 35 Scarborough Southwest
councillor_altobello@city.toronto.on.ca

Vice-Chair
Pam McConnell Ward 28 Toronto Centre-Rosedale
councillor_mcconnell@city.toronto.on.ca

Lorenzo Berardinetti Ward 37 Scarborough Centre
councillor_berardinetti@toronto.ca

Betty Disero Ward 17 Davenport
councillor_disero@toronto.ca

Joanne Flint Ward 25 Don Valley West
councillor_flint@city.toronto.on.ca

Peter Milczyn Ward 5 Etobicoke-Lakeshore
councillor_milczyn@city.toronto.on.ca

Howard Moscoe Ward 15 Eglinton-Lawrence
councillor_moscoe@city.toronto.on.ca

Kyle Rae Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale
councillor_rae@toronto.ca

If you want to appear before the committee you can contact Christine Archibald Administrator by calling at (416) 392-7039 or e-mail carchiba@city.toronto.on.ca

There are two other Cycling related issues that will be on the table at this meeting. I will be posting more info on these later. This is a good time to let the Councillors on this committee know that you want them to support a more bike friendly city.

Martin Koob
tcc-rep@tbn.ca