The City of Toronto will be hosting a cycling consultation session on July 26th, 2007 with information on the status of current cycling projects, and an opportunity to be involved in the prioritization of cycling infrastructure projects to be completed in the future. The results of this consultation will be forwarded to Toronto City Council in a report. The details of this event are quoted below, click the link to go to the city web page for the event.

2007 Toronto Cycling Consultation Session

Thursday, July 26th
6:30 to 9 p.m.
St. Lawrence Hall
157 King Street East (at Jarvis)

As we reach the 6th year of the Toronto Bike Plan, this first session will be an open house format to:

• learn about the status of current City projects from staff
• give feedback and comments
• participate in activities to help prioritize bike projects and timelines.

This year several decisions will be taken by City Council that will set the course for the Bike Plan over the next 5 years. This July the Climate Change Plan will be finalized. (see Previous Article) The City is also developing a Sustainable Transportation Plan and the Transit City Plan. In addition the 2008 budget will be set which will include the money for cycling infrastructure and cycling programs in 2008 and a 5 year capital plan for 2008 to 2012. It is important that measures to support the implementation of the Bike Plan by 2012 be included in all of these decisions. This consultation will be an opportunity to help outline how that will take place.

The information gathered at this session could feed into another report due to coming forward that will set the plan for implementing the Bike Plan. As part of the work to develop the Climate Change Plan the city has asked that "the General Manager of Transportation Services and General Manager of Parks, Forestry and Recreation to report in 2007 on the actions and resources required to complete the infrastructure elements of the Bike Plan by the end of 2012," (from Staff report 'Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan: Moving from Framework to Action" - recommendation 8. b.)

The Climate Change plan has included support for the overall goal of completing the Bikeway Network by 2012. Now work starts to develop the details of how that will be done. This consultation is your opportunity to get involved in that work.