CycleWindsor.ca
Title
Riverside Drive For All
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- The bicycle has evolved to become a practical, cost effective, environmentally sensitive and healthy mode of transportation for both recreational and utilitarian purposes in the City of Windsor. Although the high technology world we live in provides us with email, websites, cellular phones and fax machines, the provision of infrastructure to enable the physical movement of people in an efficient and timely manner remains an integral and necessary function of a city. Recognizing this function and the role of the bicycle, the City of Windsor has been working to provide a network of multi-use trails, bicycle routes and bicycle lanes to meet the needs of cyclists, and has also developed supporting programs and policies to encourage their safe use. The City of Windsor's 1989 Culture and Recreation Master Plan identified 90 percent of respondents as being supportive of the development of a network of linear parks and trails throughout the City for cycling, walking, running and skiing. Responding to this public interest and enthusiasm, the City, with the assistance of a consultant team, followed up with a Bicycle Use Development Study (BUDS) which was adopted by Council in 1991. This comprehensive study suggested a vision for cycling in Windsor as well as a set of supporting recommendations that addressed a broad range of issues and a plan to develop new facilities and programs. Since its adoption, many of the planned off-road recreationways have been developed:
Languages
English
Address
- Information Services 350 City Hall Sq. W
- Windsor ON N9A 6S1 Canada
Contact
- City of Windsor
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- +1 519 255 6100 x6583, Fax: +1 519 255 7310
