Connected Windsor: Pasquach cycling plan gets Bike Windsor Essex backing

Bike Windsor Essex backs Kat Pasquach's Connected Windsor: work with all 9 BIAs on cycling, transit, walking and tourism links between districts, building on the Gordie Howe Bridge connection. No map or cost yet.

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The plan: Mayoral candidate Kat Pasquach's Connected Windsor proposal would work with all nine of Windsor's business improvement areas to improve cycling, public transit, pedestrian routes and tourism connections between commercial districts. She says it would build on the pedestrian and cycling link across the Gordie Howe International Bridge so visitors from Michigan explore more of Windsor. She has not released a map of new bike lanes or a cost estimate. Next step, she says: bring BIAs and other stakeholders together to find gaps.

Bike windsor essex: Executive director Ron Drouillard told CBC the group sees value in the plan's focus on connecting existing cycling infrastructure and identifying gaps. He said standalone bike routes are not enough and that people need safe, connected routes to work, shops, school and services. He said the proposal aligns with the city's Active Transportation Master Plan, but argued the city has not put enough annual funding behind that network. Bike Windsor Essex also wants an all-ages-and-abilities approach, dedicated annual funding and Vision Zero city-wide.

Context: Eleven candidates are running for mayor. Election Day is Oct. 26. Windsor News has separately covered Dilkens's parks/Sandpoint pledges and Francis's downtown revitalization plan. Pasquach has said Windsor is a "very car centric city" and that better cycling infrastructure is needed for road safety.