Cassie Smith (she/her)

A line of BIXI bikes at a station. The BIXI trailer is first.

The view into the bixi trailer

Scoping out the BIXI trailer at the Via Rail station. I'll be back soon with some luggage 👀. Could be fun and practical!

23/ If you want more Bixis:

Stop saying your policy will pay for itself. It probably won't, and if it will, it only will over time, so $ is needed along the way.

Stop pretending there are no tradeoffs. There will be. Dialing them the right way will make it easier to get support for changes.

Time Magazine just declared Montreal's publicly-backed bike share one the top 25 inventions of the first quarter of the century! bsky.app/profile/ohth...

We saw it 7 years ago in Ottawa. My now 8 year old was way more into it today 😜

Also, cool to see the artist's evolution.

New lead photo contender - Lego! A main reason for our trip was to come see The Art of the Brick.

That's a lot of K's!!

A corner with two bioswales

A other bioswale

An intersection with a traffic garden and reclaimed nature play space

Another view of the traffic garden for kids

In Montreal with my family for the weekend. Will I take more photos of my kids or infrastructure 😂?

The spread to the suburbs has been so smart. The other week I was deep in Scarborough’s highland creek and there were teenagers barreling down the path on them. Many cycling seeds planted.

You asked. We deliver.

Come listen to our guest speaker Dr. Marvin Macaraig on Building suburban bike culture, participate in a workshop that will surely get your brain juices flowing. Stay for our AGM.

It’s on October 26, Bayview Yards, at 1:30pm. Register now!

bikeottawa2025agm.eventbrite.ca

Ugh, I'm sorry that happened to you.

There are so many reasons we need different lived experiences to be involved in decision-making. Thank you for sharing so many of yours.

Like how many people at this conference have experienced being catcalled and harassed on the street? Just this morning, I got catcalled while passing a group of dudes, and it flustered me to the point that I accidentally almost ran a red light trying to get away from them. It was a busy street...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Even (or especially!) just in your own little sphere. Share your meal plan with the neighbours on your street or your group chat.

This might be the *nudge* (😂) I need to finally start doing this. I share what I'm making for dinner on instagram occasionally and people always love it.

"We are participants in the creation of a norm" is something Mr. Sunstein says here. My #ClimateInfluence amplifying work is to help the folks who have some sort of influence, who care about going #plantbased or going #lesscar, for example, to get louder/more visible. Together we CAN shift norms.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame See the most iconic inventions of the past 25 years

Wow! Montreal’s public bike share system (BIXI) was featured in the TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame for 2008, not far from the iPhone and Google Street View.

While not the very first bike sharing system, it was one of the earliest and it was the model for many other systems, from NYC to London.

The view over handlebars of an orange bike in a green painted left turn bike box

A group of people wearing helmets listen to someone in a black jacket and pink hat speaking on a street corner.

A group of people including kids wearing backpacks waiting to turn left

Cassie, a white woman with bangs, smiles in a selfie with the Peace Tower behind her

Bike advocacy can look like:
- meeting politicians and celebrating cycling on Parliament Hill
- going to a rally for safe streets
- biking your kids to school
- biking to work

And sometimes you can do all of them in only 12 hours (🥱)

#OttBike #BikeDayOnTheHill #SafeStreets #BikeBus

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference' A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

-use a bicycle when possible
-eat meat one less day a week
-apply a 1.5% wealth tax on net worth over $10,000,000
-grow a pollinator garden

-buy durable clothes made from ethical and sustainable fibres instead of fast fashion brands
-buy fewer items of clothing
-restructure society to be less obsessed with consumption
-learn basic sewing skills to repair your clothes when they’re damaged

Tips for being more eco-friendly:
-turn down your thermostat when you can
-use low-flow fixtures
-legalize medium density single-stair apartments near transit, with low parking requirements
-sort your recyclables

Canada should make side guards on trucks mandatory; the usual excuse no longer works Now that we are plotting an independent course from the USA, it’s time to develop our own safety strategies and standards.

I saw my first Mercedes Econic garbage truck in Newcastle the other day and was so excited! This is the kind of vehicle we should be demanding in Canada to stop the killing of pedestrians and cyclists. Canada has hewed to the USA safety standards, but now is the time to go our own way.

"If you want to normalize walk-friendly, bike-friendly infrastructure, then you need to start by visualizing wildly different scenarios."

Great piece Jordan.

The more I've thought about this project (and others), clarified by what you've outlined here, is that real effort to make low-stress residential streets actually low stress would go a long way. Modal filters, chicanes and changing culture and social norms.

Gladstone-Gilmour bikeway will boost cycling in Centretown... ...But bike lanes all the way down Gladstone are still needed

My newest newsletter post over at Ottawa 3 Speed: A review of the proposed bike lanes on Gladstone Avenue and Gilmour Street.

Westbound contra-flow lane on Gilmour! Protected intersection at Rochester! Weird, convoluted crossing of Bronson! #ottbike

jordobicycles.substack.com/p/gladstone-...

Understanding six “key truths” about climate change predicts policy support, discussion, and political advocacy Social norms and collective efficacy are strong predictors

Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents.

What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.

I'm looking forward to cycling over to Parliament Hill tomorrow to connect with many amazing people working hard to build a bike-friendly Canada. Bring your bike to the hill for a big group photo at 5pm!

#OttBike #VeloGat

Thanks for participating & sharing! Me time on the bike is one of my favourite benefits too 😎.

A reason #WeekWithoutDriving is more binary is that for many (~1/3 of the population) driving is not an option. The campaign is to build empathy, understanding & action about that experience.

😢😢😢

Family pushing stroller hit by pickup truck in Guelph, Ont., mother dead | Globalnews.ca Guelph police say they are investigating after a woman died when she and her family were struck by a pickup truck Friday afternoon.

There was a story from Guelph a few weeks ago about a mom being killed by a driver and her last act was pushing her child in their stroller out of the way hopefully saving their life. Absolutely heartbreaking and a sign of how parents are always aware of road danger.

globalnews.ca/news/1144001...