Increasing bike ridership and growing the local bike industry are two key objectives for the City of Toronto to achieve as it works towards its climate, transportation, and economic development goals. To increase ridership, the City of Toronto is building more protected and connected bike infrastructure as well as promoting bike safety, skills and confidence through the Be Safe Campaign, and Bicycle Safety Campaign. As bike ridership grows, the City of Toronto is also working to ensure the local bike industry and workforce grows with it, supporting strategies that can attract and train mechanics who will sell and service a growing number of bikes over their lifetime. Currently, the local bike mechanic workforce faces major issues of attraction, retention, and skill development.<\/p>\n
To overcome these issues, the City of Toronto convened stakeholders into a Micro-Mobility Workforce Industry Development Committee (MMWIDC) to look at the needs of the bike industry, support bike mechanic training organizations in improving their programs, and develop strategies that can increase interest in careers in the bike industry.<\/p>\n\n\n
As part of this work, TCAT developed this report which provides insight into several key areas related to the bike mechanic workforce in Toronto:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. How locally available bike mechanic training programs are currently delivered.
2. Barriers preventing new people from joining the industry.
3. Barriers preventing consistent skill development for those joining the industry.
4. National and international approaches to bike mechanic workforce training.
5. Opportunities for technical training pathways in Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22619,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/22617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/22617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22736,"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/22617\/revisions\/22736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcat.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}