GCAT Projects

Bikes for Community Connections

Bikes for Community Connections initiative provides bicycles to newcomers in Guelph (someone who has arrived in Canada within their first year). This project is a collaboration with GCAT, Speed River Bicycle, and Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington.

Project Goals:
• Support Community Connection: Biking provides opportunities for social connection and to the Guelph Community as it provides opportunity to engage in: biking events, biking with family and friends as a leisure activity, and connecting with the natural surroundings of our community.
• Address Socioeconomic Gap: Providing bikes to this group addresses a socioeconomic gap for those new to Canada who may not be able to afford a vehicle by facilitating independence through active travel, and a medium to efficiently engage in productivity (e.g. commuting to work, school, shopping).
• Improve Overall Health: We know biking is exercise and results in improvements to physical and mental health, and is just plain fun!

Each newcomer in the program will receive a mechanically checked used bicycle.

If you have a bicycle to donate, please send a picture and general description of the bike to: GCAT at info@gcat.ca and Alex Ball at aball416@gmail.com.

Past Projects

Protected Bike Lanes on Wyndham

We can physically separate people on bikes from motorized traffic. These protected bike lanes can be achieved with bollards, planters, bumps, raised curbs, or even motorized cars! Protected bike lanes not only provide more safety to bicycle users, but they also make everyone else on the road safer as well. Protected bike lanes encourage the average citizen to cycle!

Click here to learn more about this project.