142 St Pedestrian Bridge over Whitemud Drive

Give your feedback before March 5

Option 2 provides the best connectivity

Learn about the three options to connect Brookside and Buyea Heights across Whitemud Drive, and give your feedback for March 5.

We recommend option 2 for directness, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness.

Duggan Bridge closure & detour

Traffic shortcutting through Strathcona

Have you had a near-miss? Let us know.

Traffic shortcutting through Strathcona due to the Duggan Bridge closure at 107 St and Saskatchewan Drive is creating hazardous conditions for pedestrians and people on bikes, including on the 106 St bike lane.

If you've witnessed a near-miss or collision, please let us know. Learn more here.

Yellowhead Drive Freeway Conversion

Dangerous design ignores Vision Zero principles

Give your feedback before March 8

We have major concerns about the design of the Yellowhead Drive Freeway Conversion, which ignores Edmonton's Safe Mobility Strategy. Review our blog post about the issues and please complete the survey to share this feedback with the City.

Safe Passing Bylaw

1 metre minimum passing distance

The Alberta Cycling Coalition, Paths for People, and Bike Edmonton all spoke at a recent committee hearing in favour of a proposed safe passing bylaw. The proposed bylaw, which passed both committee and council votes unanimously, is now being developed, and will mirror Calgary's bylaw, which requires automobile drivers to give at least 1m space when passing, and 1.5m of space when passing at speeds above 60 km/h.

Street Labs

Community-led street changes

Launching in March: see changes on your street this summer

Vision Zero Street Labs are launching this spring. If you’ve ever worried about the safety of streets and intersections near your home, but long term infrastructure upgrades are a long way off, you can work with your community to have temporary and adaptable measures installed in a matter of weeks rather than years. You can start connecting with your neighbours now, and work with the City to make the changes you want to see in your community. Want some great ideas? Check out these examples of tactical urbanism.

Councillor Andrew Knack has also written about Street Labs on his blog.

You can watch this one-minute introductory video to learn more about the process and hear a few ideas to get started with, and learn more about the City's Safe Mobility Strategy 2021-2025.

Win studded tires at Flying Canoe Volant

Find us at La Cité Francophone until Friday

We're at Flying Canoe Volant giving out prizes! Learn how you can win studded tires, lights, and more.

Gateway Boulevard Reconstruction and Station Flats

Station Flats feedback open until March 5

No engagement for Gateway Blvd

Paths for People has highlighted missed opportunities in Gateway Boulevard draft concept plan. We would go even farther, and propose a shared use path on the east side of Gateway Boulevard, linking 80 Ave and 81 Ave to the south side of Whyte Ave, as a measure to improve connectivity around the railway.

In the same area, a proposed development called Station Flats proposes to rezone and remove the municipal reserve (green space) on the corner of Gateway and Whyte Ave. Feedback is being accepted until March 5.

While this development is a project of Beljan Development, a developer with a strong history of well-done projects with a focus on walkability (including one of the first developments in Edmonton to include a bike garage in lieu of any on-site parking), we do have reservations about potential impacts on connectivity of the area south of Whyte Ave on either side of the railway, as well as the loss of the green space which, while neglected by the City, nevertheless serves as a gathering space for many members of the community.

You can provide your own feedback here.

Pedego Edmonton opens

Opening day March 6

Local Pedego electric bicycle dealer just around the corner

A new full-service bike shop is opening just around the corner from Bike Edmonton's South Community Workshop!

Pedego Electric Bikes Edmonton is opening on Saturday. You can find them at 10107 81 Ave, next to La Boule. They sell electric bicycles, but can service any bike regardless of where you purchased it.

Staying engaged & informed

Ways to find information and build community

1. Join Paths for People (it's free) and you'll be supporting their voice, and also receive their newsletter full of news about active transportation in Edmonton. In the latest issue: a survey on bringing last year's shared streets back.
    
2. Are you part of the Edmonton Insight Community? The online citizen panel is open to all residents of Edmonton, and gives you a forum to provide direct feedback on City policies, initiatives and issues, through surveys and discussion forums. Join today!
    
3. You can also register to the Engaged Edmonton platform, the new online home of public engagement events, including the opportunity to give feedback on the proposed Riverside Trail Realignment (until March 17). Read about Riverside Trail in the Edmonton Journal.
    
4. Follow #yegbike on Twitter, and join any of the YEGBIKE Facebook group. Do you bike with kids? Join Family Biking Edmonton! Live centrally and want to join weekly rides? Check out the Oliver Bike Club. Or meet up with other people every Friday morning at Coffee Outside. (These weekly meetups are suspended at the moment, but will return when it's safe!)
    
5. One of the best ways to stay informed about what’s going on in Edmonton is to sign up for The Pulse, from Taproot Edmonton. The Pulse is your daily Edmonton news brief, letting you know what's going on in Edmonton, both around town and at City Hall.
    
6. Don’t want more e-mail? That’s fine! You can subscribe to the Speaking Municipally podcast for your once-a-week focus on municipal politics. The episodes are always timely, so you can start listening at the latest episode, but if you’re looking for a bit more, we suggest listening to this episode featuring Kalen Anderson, the [former] director of Edmonton’s City Plan. It helps provide a good introduction to what the City Plan is all about.
    
7. Listen to Trailheads: A History of Urban Planning in Edmonton, a six part series guest hosted by Julian Faid on The Well Endowed Podcast, a production of the Edmonton Community Foundation.
    
8. And of course, follow us on Facebook and Twitter.