\u201cFew people cycle in Scarborough \u2014 and of those, says a new report, \u201cvery few are women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet the document launched on Jan. 17 \u2014 \u201cBuilding Bike Culture Beyond Downtown<\/a>\u201d \u2014 suggests that women could benefit from more cycling infrastructure in Scarborough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To start, nearly half the area\u2019s female residents \u2014 46 per cent \u2014 don\u2019t have a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In many Scarborough neighbourhoods, more than 25 per cent of households don\u2019t own a car, and many have poor access to public transit, The Centre for Active Transportation says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So why aren\u2019t more Scarborough women, who tend to make more short trips than men, venturing out on two wheels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women are more sensitive than men to safety, and in Scarborough \u2014 where there\u2019s little separation from traffic \u2014 they\u2019re less likely to be the \u201cstrong and fearless cyclists\u201d seen on major suburban roads, says Trudy Ledsham, lead researcher for Beyond Downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor women to bike, they require more security.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full article, \u201cThough half don\u2019t drive, \u2018few\u2019 women cycle in Scarborough, report says\u201d.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cFew people cycle in Scarborough \u2014 and of those, says a new report, \u201cvery few are women.\u201d Yet the document launched on Jan. 17 \u2014 \u201cBuilding Bike Culture Beyond Downtown\u201d \u2014 suggests… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhamcycles.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}