Thomas Van Laake

May 15, 2024 | spacing.ca | Albert Koehl |Thomas Van Laake |John Lorinc

For almost as long as there have been bicycles in Toronto, there have been politicians who considered the bicycle licence as a solution to some cycling issue. The latest proposal, approved by the Infrastructure & Environment Committee, but with little debate, calls for the Provincial government to change its regulations in order to allow a municipal licencing power over food couriers.

Nov 13, 2023 | spacing.ca | Thomas Van Laake |Mischa Young |Albert Koehl

By Thomas van Laake, University of Manchester, Léa Ravensbergen, McMaster University, David Simor, The Centre for Active Transportation, and Matti Siemiatycki, University of TorontoCycling is booming on the shores of Lake Ontario.

Aug 22, 2023 | spacing.ca | Thomas Van Laake |Robert Zaichkowski |Albert Koehl |John Lorinc

Olivia Chow’s victory in the Toronto mayoral by-election, brushing off anti-bike lane rhetoric, has been hailed as a new dawn for cycling in Canada’s largest city. Perhaps even more significantly, the previous 2022 municipal election had consolidated a pro-cycling majority on city council, including many supportive councillors in suburban wards.