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LETTER: We Need to Talk About Bike Lanes
Separated bike lanes are the safest and best way to encourage cycling in a city. We need leadership on this from the new city council.
Daniel Fuller
October 14, 2021
# cycling
Letter
LETTER: Investing in a Walk-able City Pays for Itself
With an investment of $3 million annually into improving walkability in St. John’s, the economic benefits would outweigh the costs by four times.
Asia Holloway
August 21, 2020
Analysis
Commentary
Speaking as a Car-Owner: It’s Time for a War on Cars
Owning a private motor vehicle no more accords you rights to extra public space than owning real estate accords you more votes in a general…
Robin Whitaker
September 9, 2019
Cartoons
Indy Inks (29 July 2019)
Gordon Little
July 29, 2019
Gadfly
How parking drives automobility and harms us along the way
As the province undertakes climate change consultations, the Pokémon Go craze and a story about a bike-using professional recycler should make us think twice about…
Robin Whitaker
August 4, 2016
Gadfly
Bike Lanes: Déjà-vu all over again
As municipalities across the country try to encourage active transportation, why does it still feel like bicycles are Public Enemy #1 in St. John’s? Robin…
Robin Whitaker
May 21, 2015
Gadfly
Biking: to helmet or not to helmet?
Why the government is wrong to make cycling without a helmet illegal, even though I (almost) always wear one when I rides a bike.
Robin Whitaker
December 15, 2014
Uncategorized
Mandatory helmet law misguided
Proponents of mandatory helmets have good intentions, but the policy can produce more negative outcomes than good.
Sara Rich Dorman
December 15, 2014
Gadfly
“When we can bicycle, bicycle”
Cycling is good for our health, the environment, the economy, and all the cool kids are doing it. So why the hold up in making…
Robin Whitaker
May 30, 2014