Harvest Ontario Protest Against the Building of Highway 413

There will be a protest walk and cycle event on Saturday October 1st against the building of the proposed Highway 413 through the farmlands of Vaughan and Caledon region. People will be starting at various locations to end up at the Brampton Fairgrounds for a mass rally. The organizers are expecting up to 1000 people from various groups to attend.

I am organizing groups from the TBN and other clubs to join the protest rides

This highway would destroy the road system that we cycle on and the farmlands in the area. We would also be punished by the huge costs to build it.

There will be a choice of two rides for this protest. The East Harvest Ride starts in Kleinburg and goes to the Brampton Fairgrounds for a roundtrip of 46.7kms. The West Harvest Ride starts in Meadowvale and also goes to the fairgrounds for a roundtrip of 56.3 kms. Protest signs will be supplied for the cyclists participating.

This is not a TBN Event. To register for the protest rides go to https://environmentaldefence.ca/howtostop413/.  Maps of the routes can be found there. Starting times are 9:45 AM on October 1st

I think this is an important event for TBN members to join. Without your protests we could see in the future a grim scenario for cycling around the GTA area.

If anybody wants to volunteer to help on the rides please email me at  touring@tbn.ca

Dennis Szilvasy

Touring Director, TBN

Become a Ride Ambassador

Do you want the chance to help other cyclists and to meet new people? All while enjoying a ride with your TBN friends? The ones you haven’t seen for a while as we begin to get out again on roads and routes across the GTA?

TBN is still looking for Ride Ambassadors for a number of our regular rides:

• Saturday Morning Ride
• Sunday Urban Rollers
• Sunday Leisure Wheelers
• Sunday Country Cruise
• Sunday Tourist.

Right now, we need the most help with Urban Rollers and Tourist. So if either of these are a ride you've done often and you're ready to help out a bit more, let us know.  

If you have not signed up yet but would like to help, or if you have any questions about the new Ride Ambassadors program, please email Alice at Experience@tbn.ca or Dennis at Touring@tbn.ca.

Come and join us. We’d love to see you. And we really could use your help.

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TBN Education Director, Andrew Patterson, offered a Zoom session on fixing your flat. That has now been converted into a YouTube to watch and share with your friends. Watch it now now and learn what to do when the unexpected happens to you. That's a heck of a lot easier than trying to watch while you're on the side of the road, in the rain (of course) trying to fix the flat you never expected to have happen. 

Event registration process to Continue

TBN's event registration system was developed in 2020 to comply with provincial COVID regulations. While the province has announced that it will soon remove restrictions on public gatherings, TBN has decided to retain the registration system.

For ongoing safety reasons there are still some events where event leaders need to limit group size. And if only some events had registrations, we felt certain that these differences would prove to be inconsistent and confusing. To avoid that, we have decided to retain registrations on all events.

Knowing the size of an event ahead of time helps us to manage it better. For example, particularly large rides often need additional sweeps. Registrations also help TBN understand what events are most popular and help us design or modify programs going forward.

Event limits are set by the event leaders and some events have limits set so high that they effectively allow for unlimited participation. Even so, registration is still required - every time.

Even non-members can participate by registering and paying a small fee before the particular event.

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