TCAT News

The job posting appears on Goodwork Canada and can be downloaded as a pdf here. Submissions are due by Friday December 9. 

We are pleased to announce that TCAT has changed its name to TCAT! That's right, the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation is now the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation. Read on to find out more about the reasons behind this change. Download the full press release here.

The Clean Air Partnership is looking for a qualified web developer/ IT services on behalf of TCAT. Please help us find the best person or firm for the job by circulating to your networks. Applications must be submitted electronically to info@tcat.ca by December 9th.

The Chief Coroner of Ontario is conducting two separate reviews into cycling and pedestrian deaths across the province. The deadline for comments or recommendations from the general public is Nov 30th for the cycling review and December 15th for the pedestrian review panel.

Ryan Whitney, the Complete Streets Researcher and Program Manager here at TCAT, has been busy establishing the methods for the Complete Streets Gap Analysis due to be completed in mid-January 2012. The Gap Analysis will provide a comprehensive overview of Complete Streets policy language, or similar policy language, in Ontario as well as barriers to implementing these policies. The research will also include a Case Studies section that will profile several exceptional communities across the province working towards Complete Streets.

Robert Imrie, Professor of Geography at King's College London, will be in Toronto to give a lecture titled "Designing for Complete Streets: the inter-relationships between vision-impairment and space sharing". The talk will be happening on Nov 23rd from 12 to 1pm at the University of Toronto, Rehabilitation Sciences building. See here for details.

The Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation has released a paper that examines the implications of sustained government investment in developing public transit infrastructure. This paper brings to light the fact that Canada is the only G7 economy that does not provide dedicated funding for municipal public transit systems. The goal of the paper is to call for the development of a national policy framework for public transit.

Nancy Smith Lea, TCAT Director, took part in a roundtable last summer hosted by the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (OALA). The topic was the challenges of rethinking the definition of green infrastructure and incorporating sustainable systems into built projects.

University of Toronto Cities Centre is organizing "Toronto Talks Mobility", a two-day free public gathering of transportation experts, activists, politicians, and citizens to kick-start a campaign for transportation solutions for the greater Toronto and Hamilton area.