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Peterborough’s bike lane strategy reads like a love letter to Dutch urbanism penned by someone who’s never actually been to Amsterdam. There’s an earnestness to it — the kind that produces PowerPoints, not progress. We’ve […]

Peterborough, the so-called “Electric City,” has spent the last half-decade proving it believes in power — not just electricity, but concrete, steel, and, apparently, enough courts to keep a whole city bouncing. Council has invested […]

Drive five minutes in Peterborough and you’ll get a free chiropractic adjustment, courtesy of a pothole the size of a canoe. Welcome to a city where the roads are less a network and more a […]

City Council met September 22nd and, as usual, managed to combine money, mud, garbage, and teenagers into one evening of civic poetry. Money, money, money (or lack thereof).The accountants started things off with the city’s […]