Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾

Transit and active travel advocate. Bicycles bring me joy. Settler - Between the Lakes Treaty 1792

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

@guelphissa31363 @LloydLongfield @guelphtransit Easy - pay cash

[Transit Action Alliance Guelph (TAAG) @TAAGuelph]

We will be holding a fundraiser Garage Sale this spring.

Details are coming soon. If you have items you'd like to donate, reach out via DM or reply so we can make arrangements closer to the date!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

True story. I’ve seen it many times. #DensityDoneWell

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

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[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

@activeguelph Very inspiring!!

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

@activeguelph Yay Andrea!!

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[Lanrick Bennett Jr. @LanrickBennett]

My #HumpdayPodcastPick 1 ~ Missing Middle Podcast w/ @carastern and @MikePMoffatt - talk to transit expert Reece Martin @RM_Transit about the challenges and issues surrounding transit development in Canada. https://t.co/PioMlEDpMM

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

READ: Paris is set to roll out its ambitious 2024-2030 Climate Plan, with urban biking at the heart of the plan. #Paris will officially prioritize cycling infrastructure, introducing 180km of additional cycling paths & 130k bike parking spaces by 2026. https://t.co/Lnfd9BxlFz

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

NEW: Quebec City has released plans to build a massive new 150km all-season cycling network over the next 10 years. The 14 new active mobility routes are referred to as “Vélocité corridors.” Via @MomentumMag @VeloQuebec
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[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Montreal still doesn’t get enough credit for being at the North American forefront of reclaiming space from cars to create more places for people.

[Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne]

“If trains were faster and reached more destinations, I don’t think I would ever fly domestically,” Grave said. “It’s such a frictionless way to travel… and I just find it a lot more enjoyable on the train..."
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[CTV Kitchener @CTVKitchener]

GO Train adds weekend service on Kitchener line for reading week https://t.co/m5fN1SaJZz

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

From @brenttoderian - Canada faces 5 crises: climate, public health, housing, infrastructure cost (sprawl), and demographic. We need instant bike lanes in a grid, bus only lanes, sticky pedestrian street scapes (cafes, parks) and to expand the tree canopy. Let’s go! @CamGuthrie

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

City of Cambridge provides template for bike lane expansion as cycling numbers soar | Momentum Mag https://t.co/5n4hjSblsK

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

NEW: Paris is set to roll out its ambitious 2024-2030 Climate Plan, with urban biking at the heart of the plan. They will officially prioritize cycling infrastructure, introducing 180km of additional cycling paths & 130k bike parking spaces by 2026. #Paris https://t.co/Lnfd9BxlFz

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

@cgreysongaito Thanks for this great explanation of ways to reduce car dependency!! @CamGuthrie @CathyDowner @ward5leanne

[Bus Driver Dan @Dan_Christensen]

I have a friend who styles himself an economics master. Well he does have a masters degree in economics.

He hates public transit. And loves to let me know. He loves to point out all its cost and failures. But what gets him is the fact that around 10 percent of the population uses it.

I finally got fed up and mentioned “what 10%” you see that 10% is not stationary. It changes, it includes youths going to school, teens on their first job. Colleges students saving money. In includes those unable to drive due to injury, or impairments, married couples just starting out, those going to downtowns not wanting to add to road misery, cyclist needing a boost or like anyone, trapped in the rain, dark and snow.

Drunk or impaired or ill needing a lift so they can get home safe, get to a friends or get to a hospital and not getting behind the wheel.

It’s retirees, or those who simply can’t drive for what ever reason.

People in wether emergencies, people being evacuated or just needing a warm safe ride to a heated shelter or to work on a snow day.

Retired, fixed income with limited options or ability.

These are not all aFixed group but many more than ten percent move in and out of transit use at different times in their life.

They are in high school, or college then again when they are older or if misfortune befalls them. It’s not a fixed group but those at different stages of life, needs, and ability.

I reminded him that he used transit to school in his teens. Downtown to his first job, sure he doesn’t need transit now but tomorrow that could change.

only ably 7 to 10% per day but eventually everyone needs a bus or train. I don’t say transit is perfect, I don’t say transit solves all problems but it does solves the problem of Transit and is there as a lifeline for everyone eventually.

I don’t know if I persuaded him. But I don’t hear that argument if his any more.

I told him if one of my favorite riders. Like everyone his life was a checkerboard of transit use. Then at the height of his legal career he found out he had epilepsy. Rather than end his career downtown or move his family he just takes the bus and a train.

This unplanned event could have upset his entire life but be moved from outside the ten percent to inside the ten percent of transit users and did so seamlessly. Keeping his quality of life and career unchanged. Things like that happen every day, just as sone people no longer use transit.

we are there every day. a quality of life insurance policy for everyone. Waiting to help when the need strikes. It’s not who we serve in a day, it’s who we serve in a lifetime that matters.

@trimet #Transit #Portland

[Eric Unger @EricONCA]

"Out-of-town rideshare drivers come to Guelph because of demand. The terrible public transit makes us very busy!" -my Uber driver in #Guelph this morning.

Uber doesn't even have to lobby for transit cuts 😆 @TAAGuelph

[Mary Ann Burrows 🇨🇦🚴🏼‍♂️🇺🇦🚌🚶🏾👩‍🦽🏊🏾 @maryannburrows]

'Detrimental consequences' for delayed transit expansion, says TAAG - Guelph News https://t.co/qjdqnMEiPc