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Lisa Stokes

Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus

  • Dixie Road Cycling Facilities North of Bovaird Drive

      This is the first of three blog posts I will make about cycling in, or near, the Dixie Road corridor, and the various cycling facilities, or lack thereof. Dixie Road Cycling Facilities North of Bovaird Drive Bramalea GO Station to Clark Boulevard (Bramalea City Centre) along Dixie Road Clark Boulevard to Bovaird (Chinguacousy…

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  • Poor Sign Placement – Castlemore Road

    I am relating this story here on my blog as I wish to provide more information to the city insurance claims adjuster but am unable to successfully send image rich emails to the city without them being bounced for being to large. There is an approximately 2.4 metre multi-use path adjacent to Castlemore Road…

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  • Exploring Hamilton Mountain Staircases

    My daughter began attending Mohawk College in the upper city on the mountain in Hamilton in January.  Shortly after she began I discovered that there are several sets of steps from the lower city to the upper city.  As someone who has climbed the CN Tower for the past nine years I was intrigued. …

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  • Brampton Cannot Afford A Tunnel

    According to Brampton’s 2016-2018 Capital Budget Overview (on page 69) the City of Brampton has approximately $4.7 billion of assets in operation, excluding land.  As assets are used and age, their useful life declines, which leads to the need for replacement. This decline is known as depreciation expense and is considered to be the…

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  • Riding UP

    Metrolinx, the provincial agency responsible for regional transit in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area, opened the Union Pearson Express (UP Express) last July amid much criticism based on the price of the service ($27.50 cash/$19  with Presto Card, one way) and skepticism over the ridership projections of 5000 people per day.  The train travels…

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  • Father Tobin Road Traffic Calming Endangers Cyclists

    Father Tobin Road in northeast Brampton runs 3.5 km west-east from Dixie Road to Mountainash Road.  It has houses, parks, two elementary schools, a middle school and two high schools.  Unfortunately, as a 3.5km long, straight, overly wide road, it encourages drivers to use it to avoid busier arterial roads and to exceed the…

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  • Buffalo and Frank Lloyd Wright

    Breakfast was included in our stay at the Hilton Garden Inn in a nice space on the second floor overlooking the LRT and Lafayette Square.  I wrote about our first day in Buffalo, here. After breakfast we packed up and asked for the car to be retrieved.  While waiting I had a look down…

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  • November 21, 2015 – Buffalo and The LRT

    I have long admired Frank Lloyd Wright and am familiar with his work from books.  Alun, my sixteen year old, is interested in architecture, so I suggested to him that we visit The Martin House in Buffalo. We left just after lunch and had an uneventful drive, with less than ten minutes spent at…

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  • November 8, 2015 – University of Guelph and the My Kitty Cafe

    Owen discovered the existence of Cat Cafes a couple years ago while browsing on the internet.  He asked me if I would take him to one, however, at the time, the only ones I could find were in Montreal and New York city.  I told him we would go to one when there was…

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  • Bike To School Week – May 26-29, 2015

    I worked with Walk+Roll Peel and the principal at my children’s school in northeast Brampton to encourage participation in Bike Week.  The school has an enrollment of 760 students.  Bike Week was promoted to families in the school newsletter, advertised on the notice board outside the school on the Friday before Bike Week began…

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