FWIW, Adrian Heaps, the councilor heading the Toronto Cycling Committee for the foreseeable future has recently put forth some changes that effectively gut the TCC. His changes include reducing the number of at-large citizen seats from 15 to 8 and removing altogether the CBN, TBN & ARC organization seats. This was done as near as anyone can tell with no consultation of any TCC affiliate past or present. Mr. Heaps also intends that there be only 4 meeting per year.

His changes destroy the committee which has been invaluable over the past decade in promoting safety and continuing the development of the Toronto Bike Plan. It affects everyone from the established components of cycling in TO, namely CBN, TBN, ARC and the individuals who worked on the TCC to better this city, to new groups, such as the TOBMA, which I understand intended to join the TCC in the same capacity as TBN, CBN & ARC, base on a recommendation of the 2006 TCC Promotions sub-committee.

Make yourselves heard, this action has the potential to set cycling back in this city by several decades and reduce the focus of the TCC (another change is that the TCC will become the CAC Cycling Advisory Committee or Kak for short) to recreational cycling & has the potential of ending inner city development of cycling infrastructure, events & promotion.

Mr. Heaps is new to council, and is acting without consultation from the groups & individuals who have dedicated their very existence to cycling for the betterment of this city.

This cannot stand.