Green Mobility Grant Recipients: June 2010

Successful applicants include:

Annapolis Royal Bicycle Project
The community of Annapolis Royal has set a target for 15 percent of the transportation mode share to be allocated to cycling. To achieve this, the town realizes that appropriate networks and infrastructure must be available. The project links trails, provides bike racks, and other active transportation infrastructure elements with the widespread support of the community.
Amount granted = $14 900

Bridgetown Bike Racks
The project proposes installing bike racks at four prominent locations throughout the community that emphasize cycling as an option for commuting and activities of daily life. The installation of the bike racks will support and encourage residents to cycle to work, to shop, to connect to buses and to visit the library.
Amount granted = $1 260

Bridgewater Bike Lanes
The community wants to mark 1.6 km of highway as shared bicycle space. This involves and extensive public relations campaign to increase the comfort level of both motorists and cyclists to the new arrangement.
Amount granted = $6 635

Canning Cycling Infrastructure for Bigelow Trail
This project puts bike racks on either end of the Bigelow Trail, which will join three schools to the rest of the community. Though Canning is a community in which it would be easy to depend on automobiles, the village is taking steps to facilitate the development of an active and healthy community.
Amount granted: $1 029.45

Guysborough County Bikeways Project
With the support of all four districts, the regional development agency cycling subcommittee proposes a plan to increase the transportation options available to the community. Cycling will be promoted as an activity for life.
Amount granted: $18 715

Municipality of the District of Lunenburg Bicycle Friendly Community Infrastructure
Recognizing the desire for more active transportation, MODL proposed an extensive network of bike racks. However, rather than deliver the racks as one more thing for municipal staff to deal with, the racks are being delivered in cooperation with local businesses.
Amount granted: $5 000

Musquodoboit Harbour Green Transportation
The Musquodoboit Harbour Community Visioning team wants to implement a larger vision to move the community toward sustainable transportation. The project proposed to Green Mobility Capital Grants is one phase of their work. Linking Musquodoboit Harbour to Porter’s Lake, the nearest Metro Transit connection, is vital to the group’s plans.
Amount granted: $10 460.45

Port Williams Community Park - Bicycle Rack
The community of Port Williams is developing a recreational park. While the Green Mobility Grants does not fund the recreational aspect of the venture, the Grants can fund a bike rack that aims to reduce the number of trips made to the park by vehicles. The project emphasizes how many adolescents depend on their parents for safe, reliable transportation to the park itself. By providing adequate cycling infrastructure, the park planning committee hopes to increase the number of people travelling to the park using active transportation.
Amount granted: $300

Terence Bay/Prospect Road Transit – Bus Mounted Bike Rack
The Green Mobility Capital Grant will be used to add value to a community transit system scheduled to begin operations in September 2010. The Terence Bay area may never meet Metro Transit’s criteria for services, so the community wants to offer an intergenerational service to residents itself. By mounting a bicycle rack on the bus, transportation options are multiplied.
Amount granted: $1 300

Le Transport De Clare Accessible Van
Le Transport De Clare provides the only public transportation service in the communities of Clare and Weymouth. The Grant will be used to help fund the purchase of a new van. Though the service began as a disability-oriented service, it is now dedicated to the ideal of community transit providing rides to all persons who are transportation disadvantaged, such as seniors, youth and people with low income.
Amount granted: $25 000