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These Leaside cyclists are ready for spring.
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Spring forward! These Leasiders are ready to ride

March 1, 2020 Holly Reid

When the temperatures dip and the roads get icy, do you pack your bike away? Winter biking is definitely not for everyone – I ride but only on snow-free roads. So, with spring, hopefully, on …more

Cycling with kids was a natural progression for the Carter family.
Cycling

Meet two Leaside families who love to bike

October 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Freedom. Independence. Confidence. These are the feelings people often recall when you ask what getting their first bike meant to them. And that’s precisely what the Carter and Psarras families hoped to inspire in their …more

A sidewalk in Leaside. Staff photo.
Cycling

Sharing the sidewalk with cyclists?

September 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Depending on whom you talk to, riding a bike on the sidewalk is either a necessary safety measure or an unpredictable threat to those who walk. In reality it’s both. People who bike often revert …more

Rob Oliphant MP, Don Valley West and Cycle Don Valley Midtown members Carmen Jones, Holly Reid, Peter Low and Bruce Rayment in Serena Gundy Park.
Cycling

A ride for “the good, the bad and the ugly”

August 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Empathy is often described as being able to put yourself in another person’s shoes or, in this case, on their bike! To let our local politicians experience what it’s really like to bike on our …more

Safe biking in Leaside. Photo Holly Reid.
Cycling

What would make you feel safe cycling in Leaside?

July 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Everyone who rides a bicycle has cautionary tales – the near misses at intersections, potholes not seen until it’s too late, lumbering trucks cutting the curb, and vehicles passing a little too close for comfort. …more

Carmen Jones (above) and Daphne Jackson are locally-based, experienced cycling commuters ready to help you bike your way to work.
Cycling

Wanna commute by bike? Try a cycling commuter coach

June 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Just in time for Bike Month in June, Cycle Don Valley Midtown is launching a Cycling Commuter Coach program to help people considering commuting by bike give it a try. Carmen Jones, who lives in …more

Bike to work picture cyclists on bicycles.
Cycling

It’s almost Bike Month and there’s lots going on!

May 26, 2019 Staff

With the creation of the Cycle Don Valley Midtown group, there are many cycling related events happening in the next couple of weeks. Here’s a rundown: Bike to Work Day Cycle Don Valley Monthly Meeting …more

Sharrows (pictured here) indicate where cyclists should ride. For motorists, they are a reminder to share the road. Photo City of Toronto.
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Urban or suburban? What’s Leaside’s cycling culture?

May 1, 2019 Holly Reid

Earlier in the year, a few Leasiders from Cycle Don Valley Midtown attended the launch of a new report from The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) about biking beyond the downtown core. The report highlights …more

Sharrows (pictured here) indicate where cyclists should ride. For motorists, they are a reminder to share the road. Photo City of Toronto.
Cycling

Want traffic calming? Get more people out on bikes.

March 1, 2019 Holly Reid

What happens when you come upon a cyclist on the road ahead? Do you slow down to assess the situation and then proceed with caution? Or do you dash ahead, accelerating to get past and …more

Members meet with Councillor Jaye Robinson. L-r: Geoff Kettel, Councillor Robinson, Holly Reid, Kris Langille and Jason Ash.
Cycling

Introducing Cycle Don Valley Midtown

February 1, 2019 Holly Reid

When the ward boundaries were redrawn in advance of the municipal election, it was a good-news, bad-news story for Cycle 26, Cycle Toronto’s advocacy group for the old Ward 26. The good news was that …more

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