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Scarborough Cycles: building bike culture beyond downtown

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Contact:

For more information contact:
Marvin Macaraig, Ph.D.
Scarborough Cycles Project Coordinator
Phone: 416 392 0260
Email: mmacaraig@tcat.ca
Twitter: @ScarbCycles
Funded by the Metcalf Foundation Cycle City program, Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank in partnership with Cycle Toronto, TCAT, and CultureLink launched an innovative project calledScarborough Cycles: building bike culture beyond downtown.
The project goals included:
  1. Create and disseminate new knowledge about cycling in the suburbs.
  2. Build capacity among local agencies and individuals to support cycling.
  3. Address barriers to increase participation in cycling.
  4. Engage with residents and stakeholders about the benefits of improved cycling infrastructure.
Scarborough Cycles identified two areas with strong potential for increased cycling and used targeted interventions in these areas to build participation in cycling for transportation. The project developed partnerships with two local organizations interested in becoming a ‘Bike Hub’.

Through these hubs we offered access to bicycles and tools, workshops and repair clinics, mentorship activities and rides, bikeability audits, and civic engagement and neighbourhood strategy workshops.
© Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank, School of the Environment, University of Toronto 2016. The material on this site (reports, maps, charts and diagrams), created by the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Our research contributions are made possible through the generous support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Metcalf Foundation, support from our partners and prior funding from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Currently this research is contributing to projects and cycling programs in the Cities of Toronto, Scarborough and Ottawa, and the Regional Municipality of Peel. 
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