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Mon, 10/19/2009 - 08:56 by herb

Toban Black, sent us these photos he took of the Community Bicycle Network space. It just so happens I'm on the board there. I encourage everyone to give it a try: let the mechanics fix your bike, or learn to fix your own.

Fri, 07/24/2009 - 16:06 - That photo was taken inside the Community Bicycle Network space, in Toronto, Ontario.  </p>
<p>Those words were on one of the bikes shown here -<br />
www.flickr.com/photos/tobanblack/3795136625/</p>
<p>There were other phrases on the other bikes in there.</p>
<p>Evidently I the yellow bikes with those words on them were the 'bikeshare' bicycles at the Bicycle Network</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>Here's a Toronto project called 'Streets are for People' -<br />
www.streetsareforpeople.org/</p>
<p>Basically, they oppose car driving, while supporting bicyclists and pedestrians; so the 'streets are for people' message is a way of saying that we shouldn't prioritize vehicle (particularly, cars) over the people in the streets.<br />
(That's my impression of them, anyway.)<br />
A quick summary -- like that one -- doesn't do justice to their goals and their approach, however. cn'Streets are for People'
15 years ago ago at Gallery District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Marcus Johnstone.

"Streets are for People"

"In the Community Bicycle Network space

Outside the Community Bicycle Network space

Rosie the bike mechanic

Fri, 07/24/2009 - 16:00 - Artist unknown</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>The photo was taken Inside the Community Bicycle Network space<br />
in Toronto, Ontario</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>Here's another Community Bicycle Network photo<br />
that someone else posted -<br />
www.flickr.com/photos/loveandbicycles/2853279855/ cnBicycling
15 years ago ago at Gallery District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Marcus Johnstone.

Bicycling

"WOMEN + CYCLING"

Fri, 07/24/2009 - 16:01 - Inside the Community Bicycle Network space<br />
in Toronto, Ontario</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>Regarding the statement about how bikes are the 'best way' to 'get around' out there -<br />
Toronto isn't very bike-friendly, so bicycling isn't necessarily the 'best' way to move about in the city.  I say this after biking around Toronto a lot during a recent visit. If I lived there, I often would bike around the city, but -- as any cyclist there will know -- biking in Toronto entails major risks, obstacles, and frustrations.</p>
<p>If the Bicycle Network is able to help get more people out on their bicycles, they will be contributing to a a safety in numbers effect -- in which case Toronto cycling would be safer.  As a mural in Toronto now declares, beside images of cyclists, there is 'strength in numbers.'</p>
<p>The Bicycle Network seems like a positive project, but I know next to nothing about<br />
their 'bikeshare' program, or anything else that they do.</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>Here's another Community Bicycle Network photo<br />
that someone else has posted -<br />
www.flickr.com/photos/loveandbicycles/2853279855/ cn'Bikeshare'
15 years ago ago at Gallery District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Marcus Johnstone.

"Bikeshare"

When I took these photos, I was just dropping by the Bicycle Network space (but, regrettably, without photographing the mural around the entrance). I since have added brief remarks to a few of the Flickr posts that the above thumbnails link back to.

I live in London, Ontario, myself. The images will mean more to residents who have more experience with the Bicycle Network. If anyone wants to type about those experiences, this post is a place where you can do that.

(If you know which artists made the work shown here, I would appreciate it if you would name them to help me to give them credit.)

I happen to know who did which photo, as they appeared in the two calendars that CBN produced a few years ago.

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