Click an orange waypoint to see just a few of many great local transit stops to get off at and ride your bike. Durham, Toronto, Burlington, Hamilton, West Niagara, Lake Simcoe - every route makes for a great day that's easy on your budget and our environment.
BikesandTransit.com is a local tourism and green transportation project that encourages new inter-modal travel behaviours. The site aims to help you get more out of nearby - and not too far away - bike lanes, bikeways and bike trails, by connecting you and your bicycle up with municipal and regional transit.
In this Year 3 of the project - the website has been updated to take advantage of new satellite mapping technologies - print up a pdf, view a kml, or download a google map or gdb file - they're all here to see, try and return for comment.
Here's a few sample bikes and transit route maps to view, print and download - more coming soon! Garmin gdb downloads are at the foot of each route page.
- Google Earth: High Park to Broadview by TTC Subway .kml
Google Earth: Ajax GO Train to Pickering .kml - Google Maps: The Don Valley - Leslie to Union Station by TTC Subway
Google Maps: Aldershot GO Train to Hamilton Harbour - Waterfront Trail: Hamilton to Toronto .pdf
Waterfront Trail: Grimsby to Niagara .pdf
Come back each week: for new bikes and transit route additions. Next up: Up (and down) the mighty Humber Valley by bike and TTC Subway; and Cycling the Trans Canada Trail from Hamilton's McMaster University by GO Bus... So stay tuned!
BikesandTransit.com is made possible through encouragement from members of the informal regional Bikes and Transit Partnership:
- GO Transit, Toronto Transit Commission, Coach Canada, Hamilton Street Railway Company, Smart Commute Hamilton + Metrolinx
- City of Toronto, City of Hamilton, City of Burlington, City of Pickering, Town of Ajax, Town of Whitby + Town of Grimsby
- Toronto and Region Conservation, Durham Tourism, Tourism Niagara, Waterfront Regeneration Trust + Trans Canada Trail
Thanks again to supporters and cyclists who took GO-by-Bike to Ajax! (2008) and Bikes+Transit.com (2009) to heart and helmet, and helped make for two great seasons of bikes, transit, trails, and the region's naturally amazing waterfronts and greenspaces!
What great days, what great daytrips!
Donald Wiedman
Wiedman Communications
Inside, Outside & Online
Welcome to "the new" BikesandTransit.com
A website encouraging recreational and commuter bicycle and transit travel across Toronto, the GTA and Golden Horseshoe. Here the spotlight is on local, inexpensive, "self-serve" cycling daytrip destinations. And the bus, subway, train, highway coach and/or ferry to get you there - and back!
What's "new" on BikesandTransit.com for 2010? - bike routes to view or download and follow in Google Maps and on Garmin personal GPS navigators!
You can also print up and follow the site's Waterfront Trail maps, order regional bike maps - and come back every week for new bike routes via satellite! Here's what's new so far:
New on Sept. 6: Toronto's Highland Creek Bikeway - from Guildwood l Cycle the Durham Coast: to Whitby and back by GO Train l The Beach + Leslie Street Spit by TTC Subway l Bicycle the Humber Valley
Recent Posts: Grimsby to Hamilton via Coach Canada + new Bike Wine Route! l Hamilton to Burlington by GO Train l Aldershot GO Train to Hamilton Harbour
Toronto: Don Valley - Leslie TTC Subway to Union Station l High Park TTC Subway to Broadview Subway l Mimico GO Train to Union Station l
Durham: l The Ajax GO Train to the Trans Canada Trail to Uxbridge + photo slideshow l Ajax GO Train to Pickering l Pickering GO Train to Rouge Hill l
Please return also to rave or rant about your trips in the new 'Comments' section. Review the region's best inter-modal cycling - from Whitby to Grimsby - in between and beyond!
Sorry: no bikes on trains or subways, week-days between 6:30-9:30 and 15:30-18:30