Recently I was in Calgary for the 2013 Leading the Way Youth Summit on Sustainable Urban Transportation where I received amazing inspiration and made friends with some terrific people from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Calgary's civic government is seriously attempting to correct its disastrous sprawl through encouraging active transportation and transit, and developing mixed-use neighbourhoods. Above is a photo of 1st Avenue in the mixed-use, transit-oriented neighbourhood of Bridgeland in east central Calgary.
If it rains, she doesn't need an umbrella.
A lady bicycling past "the Fortress" as we called it (in reality known as Century Gardens).
A bright and hopeful bicycle.
Even the mechanics at Calgary's light rail train maintenance facility get around on bicycles. Is that cool or what?
Congratulations Calgary on your soon-to-be first cycle track! (It leads up to the Peace Bridge, which is faintly visible in the background.)
Calgary's Peace Bridge: Exclusively for people walking and cycling. :-)
