Youth Mountain Cycling Program Information Session Wednesday October 18
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The Morristown Revolutions, a regional mountain bicycle team including middle and high school age male and female trainees from Morristown and Randolph completing in the New Jersey Interscholastic Biking League, which is a chapter of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA), is now hiring. & qu …
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See all stories on this topic Portland’s Bike Advisory Committee looks for new members If you wish to make cycling much better in Portland, there’s an excellent chance to put your enthusiasm into action: The city’s main Bicycle Advisory Committee …
See all stories on this subject More parking, less biking, and other proposals to unseat Westmount’s mayor Christina Smith cuts a striking figure: her bright red hair makes her difficult to miss out on, especially in the shadow of her election signs strung up on poles along Sherbrooke Street. As she walks forward, a man carefully taps her arm. “Christina, there is something I have to talk with you about,” he stated before dishing some chatter on among her rivals. The people of Westmount acknowledge Smith. For the past 7 months, she has actually been running the city as interim mayor, taking up the mantle after Peter Trent retired. Trent was a component at municipal government, having actually functioned as mayor for 25 years. Smith was acclaimed as Trent’s replacement, however she brushed aside issues she represents a mere extension of his administration. “I do wish to construct on a very strong structure in this city,” she informed CBC Montreal News at 6 host Debra Arbec. “We are debt-free, we have actually frozen our taxes for 2 years, we’re spending more on facilities. However there are things I will absolutely do that are different.” Her platform includes plans to make Westmount a shopping destination and to simplify license applications. As for traffic, Smith states that they have actually implemented a truck path to obtain lorries in and out of Westmount faster and prevent them idling on residential streets. However she says that, at the core, fixing traffic problems suggests getting more automobiles off the streets. “Exactly what we have to do is encourage more active transport. Have better, much safer bike courses so individuals are using less vehicles,” Smith said. At the other end of the city, the breakfast rush is underway at Chez Nick’s. Hidden in the back, Beryl Wajsman takes one last sip of his morning coffee. He makes his way to the door with a stack of documents tucked under his arm. It’s filled, he says, with the names of over 3,000 validated citizens for his campaign to unseat Smith. Wajsman first pertained to public attention in the 1990s as a fundraising event for the federal Liberal celebration. More just recently he sought the Conservative nomination in Mount-Royal. But he is maybe best understood now as the editor-in-chief of the neighborhood paper The Rural. Strolling along Greene Avenue, Wajsman movements to the empty stores that mar the once-vibrant shopping district. He said that merchants are “passing away” for more parking along Westmount’s major arteries. He thinks more areas would bring in more people to the area, and he has no qualms about compromising cycling efforts to accomplish that objective. “We’re going to get rid of the BIXIs, that’s gone,” he told CBC News during a current interview. “Whatever parking spots expense, so be it. We’re going to narrow bike paths and provide more parking, because on some streets … the bike paths take up half the road. It’s absolutely illogical.” It’s one part of the three-point strategy Wajsman is promoting to support merchants in Westmount. The other elements of the plan are decreasing documents and lowering taxes. Some, nevertheless, perceive Wajsman’s function at The Rural to be a potential dispute of interest, if he’s elected. The paper reports on numerous districts and de-merged cities — consisting of Westmount. “If I wasn’t permitted to do it, I wouldn’t have run. Clearly, the law permits it,” he said. “I have actually been scrupulous in not one word being written about my candidacy.” City councillor Patrick Martin crosses the parking lot at Westmount’s Entertainment Centre in long strides, his hand extended to shake a female’s hand. Right away, she smiles; she reads about him in the papers. Martin, the third main opposition for the mayor’s job, has been a component in Westmount politics for over a decade. After 12 years as the city’s public works commissioner, Martin saw it as the correct time to seek out the mayoralty. He’s wishing to put his experience as an engineer and city planner to excellent use, dealing with enhancing the city’s infrastructure. “The roads are in bad shape,” he said. “But what you don’t constantly see are some of the buildings that are in bad shape. Some are concealed away. If you think about it, the greenhouses have been closed for three years. The old Victoria train station has been 10 years, deserted.” Martin likewise called attention to exactly what runs under the roadways, such as the drain system, or other problems that can cause headaches for homeowners, such as Hydro failures. He was part of the city board that well-known Smith as interim mayor in April. When asked why he made the decision to oppose her now, he said that “the vote was figured out in advance” by Trent and his fans, without unanimous assistance from councillors. “I informed her at the time: ‘I’ll see you in November.'”
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