Get Involved

Join the Burlington for Active Transport Coalition, tell us about your route, or help us make the case for safer walking and cycling in Burlington.

Change happens when neighbours organize. Whether you have five minutes or five hours a week, there’s a place for you here.

Why joining actually matters

Here is the honest version. When a resident writes to a councillor, it’s a letter. When a group of residents writes, with measurements and sources and a specific ask, it’s a file that has to be answered. Numbers are the difference, and right now our numbers are small.

So if you’ve ever ridden to the end of a bike lane and thought well, now what — that reaction is the whole coalition. We’d like it on the record beside ours.

The most useful thing you can give us

Tell us about the route you actually take. Not a general complaint about cycling in Burlington — the specific intersection where you get off and walk, the path that ends at a curb, the crossing you won’t let your kid do alone, the detour you take every week and resent.

We can measure a ravine from federal lidar and read a thirty-year-old management plan. What we can’t do from a desk is know that a path is heaved, that a crossing is unusable at school pickup, or that the sidewalk on the far side has been closed for two years. Every one of our proposals has been improved — and in a couple of places corrected — by somebody who simply knew the ground.

That’s the contribution we’re shortest of. It takes one email and no expertise.

Other ways to help

  • Add your name. Tell us your neighbourhood and that you support the work. That’s it — it’s the number that makes councillors read the next letter.
  • Come to a meeting. Council, committee, public consultation, open house. We’ll tell you when and where it matters, and what to expect if you’ve never been to one.
  • Speak, or let us speak for you. Delegating to a committee is less intimidating than it sounds, and we’ll help you prepare. If you’d rather not, a couple of sentences we can quote is worth a great deal.
  • Lend a skill. Planning, engineering, GIS, design, writing, photography, or just being organized. Volunteer advocacy runs on people who can do one thing well.
  • Spread the word. Share a proposal with your neighbours, your residents' association, or your cycling club. Most people don’t know these gaps are documented, let alone that somebody promised to fix them.
  • Partner with us. If you’re a community group, business, school or organization that shares these goals, we’d like to work together.

Get in touch

Email is the best way to reach us:

hello@burlingtonactivetransport.ca

You don’t need to write anything formal. “I’m in the Orchard, I ride to work along Upper Middle, and the path is terrible” is a genuinely useful email.

And if you’d rather not write anything at all? Fair enough — put your address in below and we’ll come to you instead.

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