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Author: Diane Harper

A very informal cycling audit (tldr: It’s bad out there!)

Posted on 2024-08-082024-08-21 by Diane Harper in Guest Post

A couple of days ago, I had to do a few errands that required me to ride through parts of Vanier, New Edinburgh, Sandy Hill and to City Hall. The total distance was under 13 km. Here’s what I encountered:

Confession time

Posted on 2024-04-152024-06-19 by Diane Harper in Personal Stories

I drove my car for some errands on the weekend. To be clear, it is perfectly okay to drive a car. Sometimes they are the right tool for the job.

In praise of slow biking

Posted on 2024-02-262024-06-19 by Diane Harper in Microblog

“There’s a quiet revolution happening on the streets of cities worldwide: the rise of slow biking“.

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