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Click an orange waypoint to see just a few of the dozens of local destinations you can take transit to for a great bike ride. Toronto, Durham, Burlington, Hamilton, Niagara, Lake Simcoe. Every bikes and transit connection makes for a great day, that's easy on your budget.

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Hamilton & Burlington: Up Close and Personable - by bike!

Burlington, September 15, 2011 // Burlington is a leading community for cycling in and around the Greater Golden Horseshoe region. Ride to the waterfront from the Burlington GO station, bike along the Centennial Trail to Old Burlington from the train at Appleby station, or jump the bike lane on Plains Rd. west from Aldershot station to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

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Learn more about cycling Hamilton and Burlington on our new BikesandTransit Travel blog:

<< Blog 3: Hamilton - South >>
<< Blog 4: Hamilton - North >>

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Read all about it - on the new BikesandTransit Travel blog!

Toronto, August 1, 2011 // Welcome adventurers! to our new 2011 travel blog BikesandTransit Travel. Over the summer, Donald Wiedman, friends and family, will be mapping six new routes, and blogging about those rides. The new routes showcase a perfect variety of local inter-modal tourism opportunities – from simple, to not so simple – and reflect well the fourteen daytrips mapped and profiled on BikesandTransit.com in 2010.

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<< Blog 1: Oshawa to Whitby >>
<< Blog 2: Welland Canal >>
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Pleased to Introduce Coach Canada and the Welland Canal!

West Niagara, July 14, 2011 // BikesandTransit.com's sixteenth suggested daytrip is by highway coach and bike, in a bike bag. No worries, the bag is easy to purchase at the bus terminal on your first trip, and it's simple to place your bike beneath the bus. Then, in just a few hours from Toronto or Hamilton, you're on your bike, racing giant Laker steamships along the north/south Welland Canal Trail - and winning!

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Read about it on BikesandTransit Travel - The Welland Canal

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Introducing Oshawa by GO Train and GO Bus!

Durham, July 7, 2011 // BikesandTransit.com is please to introduce you to Oshawa! - a great cycling destination, with a little help from transit! This suggested daytrip is a combination of GO Train and GO Bus and bike. Not to worry, going "inter-modal" means there's no traffic, and in just over an hour from downtown Toronto you'll find yourself - and your bike - at the downtown trailhead of the Oshawa Creek Trail.

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Read about it on BikesandTransit Travel - Oshawa

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Announcing the Hamilton Street Railway Co. Pilot Project

Hamilton, June 22, 2011 // Welcome to BikesandTransit.com's second pilot project. Here you will find a selection of Hamilton Street Railway Company bus routes (with bike racks on all buses) from downtown Hamilton to great off road rides along the waterfront, across the Lake, up the escarpment, down the valley, and out into the greenbelt. Want get way, way out of town? Try the Coach Canada routes from Hamilton to Grimsby, Port Colborne and Fort Erie - and back!

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Let the BikesandTransit.com 2011 season begin!

Toronto, June 1, 2011 // Welcome to the fourth season of BikesandTransit.com. Since the 2008 GO-by-Bike to Ajax light rail and trails pilot project, the site has expanded to all five modes of transit, and easy - some not so easy - biking destinations stretching from Whitby in the east to Hamilton in the west, around the Golden Horseshoe to Grimsby, in between and beyond!.

For 2011 we are please to announce that BikesandTransit.com will be adding bikes and transit day trips to the City of Oshawa to the east (GO Train and GO Bus) and along the Welland Canal from Port Colborne north to St. Catharines (Coach Canada highway coach from downtown Toronto and Hamilton).

There's also some infill work still to be done, so expect new routes this summer too from Burlington's Appleby GO Train station and Aberfoyle's GO Bus kiss n' ride, the Toronto Islands by train, bus and subway to the ferry, and the beautiful Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe by GO Bus.

The "under construction" HSR Pilot Project page will be developed over the summer - to show Hamiltonians (and cyclists connecting from abroad) how to use Hamilton Street Railway Co. buses and bike racks to reach Hamilton's waterfront, escarpment, rail trails, (over a hundred) waterfalls and surrounding greenbelt.

So come back to BikesandTransit.com often, because this summer the website will have over 20 mapped out cycling day trips for you to examine, explore and enjoy. Bring along a copy - or print up online municipal cycling maps - to get the most pleasure out of your local, inter-modal tourism adventures.

And, please come back after your trips, to comment on the good, the bad, and the beautiful aspects of your experiences.

Bikes and Transit.com - Get right on it!

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BikesandTransit.com has been made possible for four years now, through encouragement from members of the informal regional Bikes and Transit Partnership: 

And thanks again, to all who tried GO-by-Bike to Ajax! 2008 and BikesandTransit.com 2009 and 2010 to make for three great seasons of bikes, transit, trails, and the Greater Golden Horseshoe's naturally amazing greenspaces!

Donald Wiedman
Wiedman Communications
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