{"id":114048,"date":"2022-09-01T21:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=114048"},"modified":"2022-09-05T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:11:59","slug":"car-less-cortes-excursions-a-trek-with-a-local-public-transit-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/car-less-cortes-excursions-a-trek-with-a-local-public-transit-enthusiast\/","title":{"rendered":"Car-less Cortes excursions: a trek with a local public transit enthusiast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling to and from a rural, isolated community like Cortes may seem like a daunting task. According to Carmen Mills, it is less stressful if you remove a personal motor vehicle from the equation. Mills is one of the founders of Car-Free Vancouver, an event that began in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mills happily rides her bike and utilizes public transit\u2014the<\/span> Island Link<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Vancouver Island Connector<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>BC Ferries<\/span><\/a>\u2014in order to travel without a car. She recently detailed all the options to roll from Cortes to Vancouver, Courtenay, Nanaimo, or Victoria in a post on the <\/span>Tideline<\/span><\/a>. Mills spoke with CKTZ about\u00a0 her inspiration for the post.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"I was so tired of people saying it's impossible to get to Cortes Island from anywhere without a car\u2026. it must be possible because I've been going back, and sometimes many times a year, for the last 12 years\u2026. And I don't really feel like I've suffered for it. In fact, quite the opposite,\" Mills said. \"So I wrote out the steps: how you can do it, the different options\u2014there's different options for different people.\"<\/span><\/p>\n

The bike enthusiast notes that there's one gap in the public transit between Courtenay and Nanaimo.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can almost get to Nanaimo\u2026 If you have your bike, you're cool. There's like a 10 kilometer gap. it's too complicated to get into. But the fact is you cannot public transit all the way to Nanaimo yet. There's that little tiny gap.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mills blogs about her car-less lifestyle on <\/span>bicyclebuddha.org<\/span><\/a>. She notes that the best thing about riding her bike is that it is fun, and there's freedom in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

To find out more about car-less Cortes excursions, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling to and from a rural, isolated community like Cortes may seem like a daunting task. According to Carmen Mills, it is less stressful if you remove a personal motor vehicle from the equation. Mills is one of the founders of Car-Free Vancouver, an event that began in 2005. Mills happily rides her bike and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":114053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,16830,2602],"tags":[4386,18362,18365,18358,18361,18363,13165,18359,18364,7104,984,18360,3600],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114048"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114382,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114048\/revisions\/114382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114048"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=114048"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=114048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}