Toronto Bike Summit 2008: New report card on Toronto’s bicycling infrastructure to be released

Apr 24th, 2008 6:46 AM

Media Advisory Attention News, City, Transportation, Health, Environment and Assignment Editors Toronto Bike Summit 2008 Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation to release new report card comparing Toronto’s bicycling environment to other major world cities (Toronto, 2008) On Friday April 25th, join leading transportation thinkers, practitioners and decision-makers at Bike Summit 2008. The Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) and the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) are hosting this unique one-day summit where TCAT will be presenting (8:30 am) a new report card, “Benchmarking Toronto’s Bicycle Environment: Comparing Toronto to other World Cities.” The event will also feature presentations by leading international bicycle transportation experts and opening remarks by Toronto Mayor, David Miller, Councillor Adrian Heaps, and Member of Parliament, Trinity-Spadina, Olivia Chow. WHAT: Bike Summit 2008 WHEN: Friday April 25th, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm WHERE: St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King Street East, Toronto (southwest corner of King Street and Jarvis Street) WHO: Koy Thompson, London Cycling Campaign Chief Executive, London (UK) Randy Neufeld, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation Chief Strategy Officer, Chicago Peter Lagerwey, Seattle Senior Transportation Planner Jeff Olson, Alta Planning Principal, New York Marc Jolicoeur, Vélo Québec Director of Research, Montreal Rebecca Anderson, TREK Director of Advocacy Eva Ligeti, The Clean Air Partnership Usman Valiante, Bicycle Trade Association of Canada Director of Advocacy To register and for more information contact Fred Sztabinski, Project Coordinator, Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT), 416-392-0290, info@torontocat.ca. The full “Benchmarking Toronto’s Bicycle Environment” report will be available online (April 25th) at http://www.torontocat.ca/main/documents Podcasts of interviews and presentations are available at http://soundsofsustainability.podcastpeople.com/ For the full list of speakers, event schedule and PowerPoint presentations, visit http://www.torontocat.ca/main/bikesummit2008 The Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (TCAT) is the unified voice for over fifty groups, promoting an improved environment for walking and bicycling in Toronto. TCAT provides policy analysis and plans and implements outreach and education campaigns to this end. The Clean Air Partnership (CAP) is a registered charity that works in partnership to promote and coordinate actions to improve local air quality and reduce greenhouse gases for healthy communities.