Lanrick Bennett Jr is the Bicycle Mayor of Toronto, Canada’s largest city, with extensive experience in active transportation policy, urban design, and placemaking. We had the opportunity to sit down with Lanrick to discuss painted lines or ‘sharrows’, the political will to embrace change, NIMBYism, the concept of 8 80 cities, complete streets, and the opportunities you create when you say: Yes! And?
This show is available everywhere you get podcasts July 29, 2022
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- Safe Streets: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/political-will-needed-to-solve-city-s-bike-lane-disparity-advocates-say-1.4824196
- Zoë Bennett’s deputation to City Council: https://twitter.com/LanrickBennett/status/1236623829188907011?s=20&t=fZSDbm8T9OA-uCaj5k8rwQ
- 8 8 0 Cities: Danforth: https://youtu.be/ORa9SwzKefI
- Destination Danforth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbLCBraWb4
- Kidical Mass Rides: http://www.kidicalmass.org/
- Bike Brigade – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZZ_K9M7V8
- Jack’s Library Tour: https://www.tvo.org/article/how-a-toronto-dad-and-his-son-visited-100-libraries-this-year
- All the Libraries Toronto: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459735095-all-the-libraries-toronto
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