The Parkway doesn’t get us from where we are to where we want to go

simplified map of Peterborough residential development areas and target employment areasIf we listen to City Council, the engineers and Parkway proponents, converting the Parkway Trail to the Parkway Road is critical to our future development. They say, “We MUST have the Parkway to support future residential growth in Peterborough”. Even if we assumed for a minute that future growth is anywhere close to what the “experts” suggest (and we don’t), any solution will have to get people from all of the new subdivisions in the North end to both of the key employment areas of Peterborough. We don’t think the proposed Parkway does that. Read More …

New Bike Racks for Downtown Peterborough

Car-themed bike racks will hold about 12 bikes each at popular restaurant sites The #bikePTBO hashtag was all a-twitter yesterday with comments about the new bike racks installed in Downtown Peterborough. Positioned strategically in front of popular restaurants Hot Belly Mama’s/Olde Stone on George Street and Brio Gusto on Charlotte, the racks appeared on Tuesday Read More …