SLIDE 10 Our Shopping List
1. Establish a Whitby Cycle Advisory Committee or an Active Transportation committee
– Needs to be linked at Regional level (maybe to Oshawa/Ajax?) – Meets often (i.e. Monthly) not yearly… with both Town officials and cycling residents – It should be made up of all different types of cyclists and levels of cycling ability – Must have teeth and a vision (407/E and W links, etc.) – This is what the more effective cycling municipalities and regions have done (Niagara, York, Waterloo, Ottawa…)
2. Give priority to cycling infrastructure that make key east-west and north-south connections across Whitby 3. Assign key town staff to execute plan, to coordinate and connect the dots… 4. Don’t mix cycling lanes and on-street parking 5. Consider creating safe, physically separated cycle track infrastructure on Whitby’s Henry Street to facilitate the use of cycling for transportation to GO station and local access to Water Front Trail.
(This will support transportation (commuters) and recreation cyclists of all ability levels, children and inexperienced riders who might be interested in taking up cycling or active transportation)
6. Commit to minimum annual expenditure for cycling infrastructure X $/B%
7. Follow the Whitby Cycling Plan…
8. Speak to and copy Ajax – they are similar to Whitby (why reinvent the wheel )
