They forgot the bicycle

Year Published:  1991   First Published:  1991
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter
Cx Number:  CX4180

Abstract:  Advocates of the bicycle are demanding that the bicycle be acknowledged as having an important role to play in any Green Plan for Canada. Cycling groups, including Velo Quebec, the Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Board, and the Toronto City Cycling Committee, are asking people to write to Environment Minister Robert de Cotret (House of Commons, Ottawa, no postage required) to state that "the bicycle is one of the fundamental tools of creating an environmentally sustainable society." They write that "we cannot afford to ignore the clean alternative to the private automobile, the pervasive polluter that consumes energy and land and makes our large cities noisy, dirty, congested places to live.... Support is needed to encourage the use of the bicycle as a vehicle for commuting, shopping and other short trips."

Subject Headings

• Bicycles
• Bicycling