The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal has an exhibit on until next April celebrating urban activism from around the world. Take the Tooker's Mobile Bike Lane is displayed as is Toronto's Urban Repair Squad's bike lane stencil.

Early Bird Registration was just announced for the Ontario Cycle
Tourism Forum, January 23, 2009 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in
Toronto. The forum will feature presentations from world-leading cycle
tourism organizations and provide market profiles of specific regions,
successful tourist product and marketing examples, business development
case studies, best practices in infrastructure and signage, and
evaluation of regional growth opportunities. The full agenda available here.

The Transportation Futures Road Pricing Forum
takes place on November 13th with a stellar line-up of international
and Canadian experts. The organizers have just announced that NGOs and
students working on sustainable transportation issues can save 35% on
Transportation Futures regular registration fees. Since there are only
15 subsidized seats available on a first-come, first-serve basis,

The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure is currently implementing its
award winning Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. At the
Places to Grow Summit held in Vaughan last week, successful "smart
growth" projects from local municipalities and around the world were
showcased. It's an exciting time in Ontario as municipalities
everywhere are working hard to achieve better transit-oriented, mixed
use neighbourhoods built to scale for active transportation so that
cyclists and pedestrians feel accommodated and expected. More info

Following-up on our successful event in September, Bikes as a Public Good: What is the future of public bikes in Toronto?, Torontonians will get a real live feel for what public bikes might look like on our city streets. The recently launched Bixi system in Montreal will be demonstrating their platform station and specially designed bikes this Friday.

Date: Friday, October 24

Time: 10:30 am

The Community Bicycle Network (CBN) and Mountain Equipment Co-Op (MEC) are TCAT supporters.

One thing missing from the Metrolinx RTP, and more specifically the
accompanying Investment Strategy, is the discussion of implementing
road pricing. It seems as if this was too big a political pill to
swallow at this point in time. While TCAT is disappointed to hear this
news, we're inspired that the discussion is still going on. Please see
the notice below about an upcoming road pricing conference.

This past June, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), in partnership with TCAT, hosted a webinar called Highlights from Bike Summit 2008: Leading Examples from London, England and Seattle, Washington.
This was an opportunity for those unable to attend Bike Summit 2008 in
April to hear from two of the most popular presenters: Koy Thomson and
Peter Lagerwey.

TCAT, in partnership with the Community Bicycle Network and the Clean Air Partnership, are happy to announce our next public event, coming up in just under two weeks!