Featuring the things that didn’t fit in a nice neat place of their own, from infrastructure to lifestyle, to simply nice or interesting photos I took along the way. There’s still a few stories to tell… It’s a long one…

Copenhagen style bike lanes, landscaped bike lanes, pedestrian streets, no right-turns-on-red, and an innovative bicycle street amongst other things…

Canals… Protected bike lanes… ok, it still has a ways to go, but spending a week in Ottawa, and for the first time, having my bike with me, I was able to explore a lot more than many previous trips, and there’s a lot of good things happening. Here’s what I came across…

Imagine a traffic signal that is aware you’re arriving on a bike and decides to adjust its timing to give you a green light without needing to stop. It doesn’t happen every time, but when it does, it’s quite special!

It might seem like nit picking, but what we call a street for bicycles is important, even more so if we can reflect that name in the signage and pavement markings, and maybe even convey the priorities a little better than a simple sharrow.

We’re talking Nice, the City in France here, but the infrastructure could also be described as nice. Take a wander and occasional bike ride along some of the protected bicycle infrastructure.

Continuous sidewalks and bike paths are relatively new in Canada, but there’s growing interest. Let’s take continuous sidewalks and bike paths across local streets from emerging practice to standard practice in Canada.

To date we’ve been doing them wrong in North America, or at least in the wrong places. Woonerf’s are most often found on residential local streets rather than commercial main streets in the Netherlands.

The Esplanade Complete Street project provided a considerable upgrade to the active transportation infrastructure and streetscape along this busy commercial arterial street, making it safer and more comfortable for everybody travelling along it.

What it’s like to ride a folding bike straight from the airport, ride it relatively long distances, take it on the train, and even take it around the grocery store…