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RSS FeedsWhat a novel new study tells us about why Toronto residents don´t bike to work
(The Star Books)

 
 

9 september 2019 21:05:32

 
What a novel new study tells us about why Toronto residents don´t bike to work
(The Star Books)
 


For an experienced cyclist like Karen Segal, her daily commute downtown should be a breeze. The distance between the 32-year-old lawyer’s home and the office where she works isn’t far, and the terrain is mostly flat. “It should be a pretty short, easy ride,” she said, “but every morning it’s terrifying.” Segal’s problem is there are no cycling routes she feels completely safe taking between her home near Main St. and Danforth Ave. and her office at College St. and Bay St., a distance of only about seven kilometres. Once she crosses the Don River into downtown there are separated bike lanes, but none of them reach into her neighbourhood. On Thursday morning the merely terrifying nearly turned disastrous when a driver suddenly veered into Segal’s path on Danforth, causing her to crash into the back of the car. Segal said the driver didn’t signal or check to see if it was safe to pull over. She escaped with cuts to her hand, but the incident left her shaken. Segal said she values the health and environmental benefits of cycling too much to stop, but she expects the crash will make her more afraid to bike, and it’s served as an unwelcome reminder that “I’m really at risk when I’m biking next to cars.”Segal’s scary commute backs up the findings of a novel new study by University of Toronto researchers, which is among the first to attempt to quantify cycling accessibility by measuring the number of jobs reachable by bike. The article, which will appear in the Journal of Transport Geography, concluded Toronto lacks networks of safe, comfortable cycling routes that provide easy access to a high number of jobs and other opportunities. Shoshanna Saxe, the senior author of the study, explained that jobs are considered an important indicator of accessibility not just because of employment but because jobs tend to be concentrated in business districts, shopping centres, and other ...


 
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