Oakville supports Share the Road Cycling Coalition initiatives

Oakville is asking the government of Ontario to put more funding into necessary infrastructure for the cycling community. The town’s council voted unanimously to endorse the Share the Road Cycling Coalition’s initiative.

The town has already taken steps to include cycling infrastructure into its own Transportation Master Plan, however, the town’s council voted for a Share the Road Cycling Coalition, which asks the Ontario government for one per cent of the provincial transportation budget to go to larger community cycling infrastructure.

According to an Inside Halton online report, the funding would be put toward cycling infrastructure that would help integrate the transportation system, such as building routes for cyclist that bypass the QEW and the town’s waterways.

“As a municipality we still need to move forward on our own active transportation projects and invest in cycling infrastructure, but with provincial support we could move even closer to achieving our goals of becoming a more active community,” said Ward 2 Town Councillor Pam Damoff in the report.

“Seventy per cent (of surveyed Ontario residents) agreed that the Ontario government should actively support cycling and 78 per cent said they would cycle more often if there was more and better cycling infrastructure.”