Advocacy resources

Winnipeg and Manitoba

• Province of Manitoba: Active Transportation Web Portal
• City of Winnipeg: Active Transportation
  — Action Plan 2008 (PDF)
  The Standing Committee’s recommendation was adopted by Council on May 14, 2008. The recommendation did not need further elaboration or implementation documents. This is official City Policy. It means that any reconstruction or rehabilitation of an element on the Active Transportation Network must include the incorporation of Active Transportation facilities.
  — Action Plan 2009 (PDF)
  — Active Transportation Advisory Commitee's 2009-2015 plan (PDF)
• City of Winnipeg: Major Projects
• Province of Manitoba: Beyond Kyoto -- Greening our Transportation Sector (PDF -- 1.8MB)
  — Cycling is on pages 3 & 5 ... BttF letter to Minister Ron Lemieux about it (PDF)
• Cycling Advocacy for Winnipeg Citizens (PDF), by Bike to the Future
• We Need You! (PDF), Bike to the Future's membership recruitment poster
• Cycling in Manitoba -- Fact Sheet (PDF), by Bike to the Future
• The Case for Spending on Bicycle Facilities (PDF), by Bike to the Future
• One Green City -- A comprehensive resource for cycling advocacy in Winnipeg
• Green Action Centre's Transportation page
• OttoCycle: Building Better Biking in Winnipeg -- GPS cycling study during 2009

Misc

• An overview of cycling health and safety research: Selected Facts, Statistics, Citations and Quotations (PDF)
• Ontario's Cycling Death Review: "Road Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility" (PDF)
• City of Edmonton's Bicycle Transportation Plan (2008), Media story
  Edmonton and Winnipeg have similar climates.
• From Fun to Functional: Cycling – A Mode of Transportation in its Own Right (32 page PDF) -- Province of Quebec's Bicycle Policy, May 2008
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute -- many well-researched documents
• Active Transportation - Canada blog
  A weekly posting of news articles, studies, reports, and other items, with previous postings available in an archive. There are many good cycling articles on it.
• Active Transportation in Canada -- resource and planning guide (PDF), Transport Canada
• Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals -- resources and links
• Pedal power
  — A cyclist can travel 1,037km (644 miles) on the energy equivalent of one litre of gasoline.
  — Regular cycling can make you as fit as someone who is ten years younger.
  — A cyclist consumes 1/50th of the oxygen of a car making the same journey.
  — A twice daily half-hour commute will, over a year, consume the energy equivalent of 24lbs of fat.
  — In 1949, 34 per cent of all mechanized journeys were made by bicycle. Fifty years later that figure had fallen to 2 per cent.
• Streetscape Pro -- A freeware program that allows you to make professional looking streetscape images
• National Survey of Bicyclist and Pedestrian Attitudes and Behavior
  — Summary Report (32 page PDF)
  — Findings Report (184 page PDF)
• The Case for Increased Federal Investment in Bicycling and Walking (USA) (48 page PDF -- 5.1MB)
• Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking and Business -- A Study of Bloor Street in Toronto’s Annex Neighbourhood (38 page PDF -- 1.6MB)
• Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany (35 page PDF)
  — Also see Cycling for Everyone: Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany, a 79 minute video
• What Would Get Americans Biking to Work? Decent parking.
• How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road. Figure out what women want.
• Share the Road (Ontario)
• Yield to Life
• In Defence of the Bicycle
  "Cycling in the absence of motor vehicles is about 500 times safer than driving in the absence of cyclists."
• BttF Mobile Exhibition Stand design
  — Masters of Interior Design student Anna Westlund's Studio Project (13 page PPT -- 3MB)