by Charlotte Estey | Oct 6, 2023 | Transportation
If you don’t yet know what a “bike bus” is, it is time to take note. The concept started gaining social media attention in 2021 through videos from Barcelona showing hundreds of children cycling to school together while taking over entire streets. After the “bicibús”...
by Xuedan Xu | Sep 6, 2023 | News, Transportation
In early 2023, Green Communities Canada received $100,000 in funding from Infrastructure Canada’s National Active Transportation Fund to conduct research about how students across British Columbia and Ontario get to school. To do this important research, Green...
by GCC Team | May 2, 2023 | News, Transportation
Peterborough, Ontario, May 2, 2023 – Today, Infrastructure Canada announced a federal investment of $50,000 to advance a provincial data collection pilot in Ontario to research how children travel to school. The funding, granted to Green Communities Canada...
by Xuedan Xu | Apr 3, 2023 | Transportation
School Travel Planning (STP), a community-based approach to increase rates of active travel to school, was brought to Toronto in the mid-1990s to address such concerns. Since then, Green Communities Canada (GCC) has been a major contributor to the growth of STP in...
by Xuedan Xu | Mar 8, 2023 | Transportation
After decades of work to reverse the decline in walking and wheeling among students, Green Communities Canada (GCC) received a major financial contribution from the Government of Ontario in 2017 to do this important work on a provincial scale. Thus, the Active &...
by Nicole Roach | Jan 4, 2023 | Transportation
Green Communities Canada (GCC) is thrilled to receive funding through the Government of Canada’s Active Transportation (AT) Fund to lead an Active School Travel (AST) data collection pilot in British Columbia to establish a travel mode baseline for Canadian...
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