Tag: Active Transportation

GUELPH POLITICAST #442 – The War on Bike Lanes (feat. Mike Darmon & Adrian Salvatore)

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If you feel like active transportation options are under siege at the moment, you’re not alone. The Ontario government is coming for municipal bike lanes while cities like Guelph, facing unprecedented financial barriers, are seeing robust active transportation networks as a “nice to have”. We’ve spent the last few years trying to undo decades of building our cities around the personal automobile, but is the war on bike lanes finally here? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #442 – The War on Bike Lanes (feat. Mike Darmon & Adrian Salvatore)” →

This Week at Council: Strategic Plan Updated Further, and So Was Transit!

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April ended with a very busy trifecta of meetings including a very heavy focus on transit matters. Before that though, council had another workshop to discuss the update to the Strategic Plan for the last time before a finished draft comes back in a few months. As for transit, council made some updates and heard all about those future plans, and other matters of transportation, at a separate workshop. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Strategic Plan Updated Further, and So Was Transit!” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for April 26, 2023

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Shall we learn more about transportation in Guelph? You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for April 26, 2023” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 26 Meeting?

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To end this April’s worth of council meetings, there’s this new orientation session that will focus on getting around. What’s currently going on with the movement of people around the city? What are we doing to make your roads safer for everyone regardless of how they’re moving around? What’s in the works from Guelph Transit? You can’t say that all questions will be answered, but many of them will be.  Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 26 Meeting?” →

Green Party Wants *You* to Get an EV! And *You* to Get an EV!…

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The shift to electric vehicles is the greatest change to the automobile market since the invention of the windshield wiper. The Green Party of Ontario is making it a matter of policy to encourage you to trade in your gas-powered car for an EV and on Friday leader Mike Schreiner and deputy leader Dianne Saxe held a virtual press conference to tell Ontarians that they should have an easier time getting into an EV. Continue reading “Green Party Wants *You* to Get an EV! And *You* to Get an EV!…” →

This Month at Council: Economic Plan, Growth Plan and Transportation Plan.

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Guelph city council began the year 2022 by approving a lot of new long-term plans. Council set up and knocked down plans for economic development over the next four years, plans to manage growth for the next 30 years, and plans for moving people around town for that same time horizon. Here are all the developments from a surprisingly busy January around the virtual horseshoe. Continue reading “This Month at Council: Economic Plan, Growth Plan and Transportation Plan.” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for January 24, 2022

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Council will discuss the passage of the Transportation Master Plan. You can click here for the amended agendas from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for January 24, 2022” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 24 Meeting?

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Since city council approved the draft Transportation Master Plan last summer, the City of Guelph has initiated automated speed enforcement, installed new red light cameras, built several new pedestrian crossings, and committed to a 10-year investment in improved transit. What’s next? Well, for this special January meeting, council will approve (or not, potentially) the completed version of the Transportation Master Plan. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 24 Meeting?” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for May 26, 2021

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Let the debate of the Transportation Master Plan begin! You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for May 26, 2021” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 26 Meeting?

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What is the future of transportation in Guelph going to look like? This is not just a question about transit, but about all manners and methods of travel. How much room on the road will there need to be for cars? Can we make more room for cyclists? How to we promote more walkability and transit use? How to we advocate for more intercity transit? The Transportation Master Plan may help point the way on these and other questions. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 26 Meeting?” →