Great to meet @bmdoucet on his Canadian tour! The @ChatrLab team did tour of Vancouver's bicycle infrastructure - talking about what is working, as well as what is not. Thanks @mobi_bikes for the e-bike support for the hills 🤣

Hot off the press! Our #openaccess CanBICS paper, led by @colin_ferster, details how we developed a national dataset of bicycle infrastructure using #OpenStreetMap.

Black artists must often leave Surrey to find work and BLAC wants to change that. The space will offer mentorship for emerging Black artists, community events co-led with other Black organizations and businesses, creation and display of multiple mediums of art, and more (2)

Thank you to the lovely Moroti & Arshi from the new Black Arts Centre (BLAC) in Surrey for hosting the REACH-Cities team! Arshi spoke about how the Centre was born from the desire to create "a place of radical rest and relaxation" for Black community members in Surrey (1)

@CityofVancouver @ParkBoard had a huge crash on black ice this morning as a biked to work- right at @scienceworldca. Entirely preventable. Hundreds more will pass through here today. Get out there and salt the bike routes if you want #activetransport & #greenestcity. #priorities.

Our OSM Can-BICS metrics provide national research- and practice-ready measures of cycling infrastructure. We found that one-third (34%) of neighbourhoods in Canada have no cycling infrastructure, while 5% were assigned the highest category.

New paper alert! Here we share the first national dataset in Canada for metrics of the cycling environment at the DA level.

Thread (pt 2): maintain and use the area for food security, Indigenous ceremonies, and social connectedness. Members of the community were inspired to activate the community after a woman was killed in the area in 2013, and hold conversations about safety and inclusivity.

Thread (pt 1): The REACH-Cities team recently took a tour of the Grove and the PLOT Sharing Garden in Surrey’s Newton neighbourhood, led by @sfuurban student, Aman Chandi. Aman spoke to us about the resilience and drive of Newton’s low-income and homeless community, many of whom

Introducing REACH-Cities🏙️ This six year project aims to advance research, tools, and partnerships that increase gender (and social) equity in our cities, helping to generate tangible actions to create spaces that are safe and welcoming to all. Keep an eye out for more updates!

Finally, our work documented inequities in access to bicycle infrastructure in South Vancouver, which persisted even as Vancouver made major investments in cycling network 2001-2016: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…