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Nuit Blanche XYE Glow Roll 2025 – Sept. 20th
If you’ve ever joined one of our slow rolls and thought “what if this was at night AND a tour to see amazing art”, the Nuit Blanche Glow Roll is for you! Nuit Blanche is a free night-time contemporary arts festival featuring projections, sculptural installations, performance, music, theatre, and other contemporary art forms that wow…
Moving Forward Together: Building Equitable Mobility for All Saskatonians
Published in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix 12 Aug 2025 As our city continues to grow toward half a million residents, we face a fundamental question: what kind of community do we want to become? The conversations around transportation infrastructure often reveal deeper values about inclusion, dignity, and our collective commitment to ensuring every resident can…
Research-Based Responses to Common Cycling Infrastructure Misconceptions
Op Eds and comment sections are often painful examples of the persistent myths that continue to block evidence-based transportation planning in Saskatoon. While these misconceptions have been repeatedly debunked by peer-reviewed research, economic analysis, and real-world data from cities worldwide, they persist through strident repetition rather than from any factual foundation. The resulting misinformation has…
Saskatoon stats and links
SGI Collision Statistics over many years These reports compiles information on Saskatchewan traffic collisions gathered from reporting by Saskatchewan police agencies and SGI claims. SGI Collision Statistics over many years Winter Road Maintenance – Saskatoon Saskatoon is a winter city that experiences an average of 5 or 6 snow events (min of 5 cm each)…
Public art in Saskatoon to see on your bike
Saskatoon has a lot of public art that you can see while riding your bike around the city. Even more handy is the map they have that shows all the locations.
2021 Results Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo
Between June 1st & 6th, 2021 over 1,000 volunteers in 68 communities across Canada were out counting cyclists. Our study targeted 14 Focus Communities for a more targeted approach, to get a better understanding of what cycling looks like. PP/SV 2021 Summary Results (infographic) While we did more detailed and aggregated analysis on our Focus…
Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure in Mid-Sized Cities
The Context Governments are currently considering making major investments in transit, cycling and walking infrastructure, in order to alleviate the pressures of congestion, emissions, and population growth. The City of Victoria (BC, Canada) with support from the Provincial government, committed $11+ million to build an AAA active transportation network (AAA meaning “All Ages and Abilities”) of safe connected…
Barriers and enablers to riding a bike for transport
Riding a bike for transport purposes is an effective way to improve population and environmental health. Despite this, participation levels in many countries are low. Identifying the barriers and enablers to riding a bike for transport is essential to developing interventions that encourage bike riding. In this mixed-methods systematic review, we aimed to identify the…
The Canadian Bikeway Comfort and Safety (Can-BICS) Classification System
Can-BICS uses the metrics of comfort and safety to establish a simplified and standardized naming convention for all bicycle facilities that can be used in public health research, surveillance, and cycling practice. Cities use so many different names for the same bicycle facility — when we compiled bicycle infrastructure names used in open data from…