Shifting gears : Shifting gears

According to the City of Calgary, “since the mid-1990’s, the vast majority of path- ways have been built by the housing development industry” and the City has been the beneficiary of maany major capital and asset donations for pathway infrastructure.5 Both private and city-commissioned polls consistently show that mobility is the most frequent reason given by Calgarians for perceptions of both an [...] In the advancing technology, the ability of organizations to end, when it comes to the interpretation of data in a gather, store, and analyze data has grown exponen- democracy, the public gets to be the judge, and the tially in recent years. [...] The City should Next, the City uses the percentage of population and strive to use data analysis to identify as many spot jobs within 800 metres of the cycling network as an maintenance problems and high crash areas as indicator of how connected its cycling network is. [...] Another way to look at the quality of the overall Finally, in the past, cycling network additions cycling network is to consider how much of it have been made on a piecemeal basis, without a was subject to hoarding or other forms of closure concerted focus to leverage technology in order to during the year. [...] By providing such data, the public can 18 also more clearly weigh the trade-offs involved in Lastly, the City should measure and publish data various infrastructure options – as it stands, it is regarding the number of cycling focused events likely that the City inadvertently allows the public and the number of participants.