{"id":5150,"date":"2014-10-15T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:13:40","slug":"moving-millennials-future-mobility-dispersed-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2014\/10\/15\/moving-millennials-future-mobility-dispersed-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Millennials: the future of mobility in the dispersed city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-cities-for-people-new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4182\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-cities-for-people-new-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"cities for people\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-cities-for-people-new-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-cities-for-people-new-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-cities-for-people-new-940x130.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-cities-for-people-new.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2014\/10\/08\/moving-millennials-generation-changing-mobility\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part One<\/a> of this series, Millennials are currently playing a significant role in how cities adapt to moving large numbers of citizens efficiently. Urban and transit planners are working quickly to respond to the growing need for more diverse transportation options in city centres, creating more complete public transit networks, bicycle infrastructure, and even supporting car sharing schemes. This is all well and good, and is serving a large portion of the population in urban areas, but what happens ten years down the road? Millennials are not immune to the passing of time, and there will come a point in their lives when they are no longer considered \u201cyoung adults\u201d <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0when they begin to settle down, possibly have families of their own, and their needs for housing and transportation will begin to change.<\/p>\n<p>While meeting the needs of today\u2019s youth is crucial in the major city centres, it is integral that city and transit planners recognize the importance of fostering habits Millennials are creating today, in order to retain them in the future. What their habits will look like can only be speculated upon, but we can look at the patterns of generations before them to get a better sense of what may come.<\/p>\n<p>First, we must understand one of the reasons for these transportation adaptations in the first place. Improvements in public transit and bicycle infrastructure certainly serve the transit preferences of today\u2019s young adults, but it also helps to greatly reduce the number of cars on the road. Imagine if each and every Millennial living in any major Canadian city had a private automobile, driving to school, work, or any other number of destinations. The traffic congestion currently experienced by many motorists would, at minimum, be doubled, increasing travel times, CO2 emissions, noise pollution, and having a significant impact on the overall health of the people living in the city. It\u2019s simply not possible, or sustainable, for our future as a well-functioning society. In order for this very bleak picture to not become a reality, the developments have to move beyond the city centre and into the dispersed, suburban cities.<\/p>\n<p>There is a small percentage of young people who will always remain in the city\u00a0<em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0even as they enter their forties <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0making city life work for them, (and possibly their families), should they so choose. The fact remains that urban life comes at a cost, and a very steep one in places like Toronto and Vancouver. As such, many Millennials will inevitably follow in their parents\u2019 footsteps, opting to move out of urban centres for more attainable housing prices and a lower cost of living. It is not that they feel forced to move back, but generally, most adults will end up where they spent their formative years, to neighbourhoods resembling their childhood home, likely in suburbia. And a return to the outlying regions presents challenges to the current suburban transportation model.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5151\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5151 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-2-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"mbruntlett 2 image 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-2-940x625.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-2.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Montreal, the bike network and Bike-share systems are linked to the Metro stations, making the connections easy to manage for daily commuters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The dispersed city as it exists now is severely lacking in its accessibility to the same transit options Millennials have grown accustomed to <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0specifically public transit and bicycle infrastructure. What city and transportation planners must do now is recognize the need to maintain their habits, even out of the city centre, and they have to do it now. Dispersed cities must begin to offer public transit options that connect conveniently with those serving major cities, making it easy for the average person to commute into the city for work. Offering the same convenience Millennials have come to expect today when they are in their forties will give them similar opportunities to catch up on emails, check in with family and friends, and possibly even keep in touch with their own growing children, all while commuting safely to work. The pragmatism of their youth will not dissipate <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0they will continue to choose the method to get from point A to B that best serves their needs at a particular moment. A complete public transit system will provide the incentive for Millennials to continue using public transportation, even if they leave the city, because it should, and must, be easy.<\/p>\n<p>There is another dynamic that will come into play, though, especially for those in this generation that decide to start a family of their own. It is no secret that adding children to the family make up greatly increases transit needs. No longer is the focus simply getting one person to and from work, but planners must also factor in these individuals\u2019 needs to get children to day care, school, activities, et cetera. The easy choice for many families currently is the family car or, in many cases, two: one for each adult to shuttle kids around and get themselves to work. But as we know, this model will not be sustainable in the very foreseeable future. So this new, complete, transit system must also better facilitate getting around with kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5154\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"mbruntlett 2 image 1\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-1-600x901.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-1-625x940.jpg 625w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/mbruntlett-2-image-1.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>There is a great opportunity for the bicycle to provide this convenient means of transportation for young families. Planners in cities have recognized that with comprehensive bicycle infrastructure also comes increased ridership. This is not an anomaly achievable only in large cities<em>\u2014<\/em> \u00a0reduced speed limits, traffic-calmed bikeways, and even separated cycle tracks leading to schools, community centres and shopping districts can help encourage young families to travel by bicycle to get around in any city. My own family has achieved this lifestyle while living in one of Vancouver\u2019s neighbourhoods, calling &#8220;The Drive&#8221; home. Our ability to exist as an active family without car ownership is due largely in part to the safe, accessible bike routes within easy access from home. Our children, ages five and eight, live average busy lives <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0outside of school, they participate in dance classes, music lessons, and a variety of sports, all of which we arrive to mainly by bicycle and within about 20 minutes of leaving our home, not unlike many trips taken by car. The model currently being applied in Vancouver is achievable in any suburban city with some work and forethought.<\/p>\n<p>What is encouraging is that there are some dispersed cities that have already begun the work to create more comprehensive public transit. In the <a href=\"Since%20Toronto's amalgamation, there's been very little re-tooling of the governance model foisted upon the region during Harris years. Paul Bedford, our city's former Chief Planner and appointee to Ontario's Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel, spoke with Spacing to unpack a few ideas that might improve our awkward teenaged governance model.  SPACING: Over 16 years after amalgamation, what does our government model look like in Toronto? What's missing?  BEDFORD: It's a model that is too big and too small at the same time. It's too big because so many people find it very difficult to interact, and engage with the city the way they used to when there were the six boroughs, because they felt their local government was much closer to them, more accessible. That's the big part: people feel distant. And I think it's too small, in many ways, because it has problems interacting with the larger region \u2013 with the GTHA and the Greater Golden Horseshoe \u2013 because we're all in this one region, we're all in this together. And the question is: how do we all plan, work, develop transit facilities as a region, not just one city versus another city? I think that whole business of what I call \u201cthinking and acting like a region\u201d is really a key theme. And the other key theme is having a governance model where people can feel like their voice matters.  SPACING: What are other governance models we could look to?  BEDFORD: One of the ideas is simply about breaking a big place \u2013 which this amalgamated city is \u2013 down into more bite-sized pieces that people can interact with. And there's lots of cities that have done that. New York is one place, (obviously it's very big with eight plus million), they have 59 community boards that are established in different pieces of geography that represent about 250,000 people each. And those are all comprised of citizens, not politicians, and they have a strong advisory role \u2013 each community board is residents, and business, and developers, industrialists, and property people. So it's pretty democratic. That's one model: I know Los Angeles, Seattle, many other people have what they call neighbourhood advisory committees. But the thing is, if we go down that road, it has to be a made-in-Toronto model.  SPACING: You've advocated a mix of local and district representation on council, similar to the old Metro Council system. How might that improve decision-making at City Hall?  BEDFORD: Let's just assume, for the sake of argument, that you keep 44 councillors. It's important for any councillor to think, not only local or ward-based for obvious reasons, but also city-wide. Generally, the bias of our governance system is: most councillors really care only about the ward, or about the local stuff, and the city-wide thinking sometimes doesn't receive the attention it should. I was just saying: take roughly a quarter \u2013 which is 11 out of the 44 \u2013 and devise the system where 11 people were elected on a district basis, and everybody else would still be elected on a local ward basis, so you get a mix of people that were primarily thinking city-wide, versus those that were thinking local. They'd all still be on the same council, but it's trying to get the best of the Metro and local governance models built into the amalgamated model.  SPACING: We seem to have some regional antipathy between the former municipalities that comprise the city. How does that effect governance in Toronto?  BEDFORD: Part of that is historical, part of it's cultural, part of it's \u201cwe did it my way and I don't like your way.\u201d I think the key there is one size doesn't fit all, and you have to have a strategy that respects the local differences \u2013 of built form, and character, and objectives of different communities across the city \u2013 yet still have a cohesive city that works. What works downtown is not going to work in suburban Scarborough. I just think our governance model needs to be improved, to be more sensitive to the need to address both local and city-wide issues. And secondly, to harness the energy that exists in communities all across the city that is now not really being harnessed. A lot of it's frustrated.  SPACING: Heading into an election, what should people be asking of prospective councillors and mayoral candidates?  BEDFORD: I think it would be very refreshing for candidates to at least engage with people about \u201cgee, how can we make amalgamation work more effectively?\u201d That's the key question, both for a city-wide agenda and a local agenda.  SPACING: Every once and awhile, someone floats the de-amalgamation balloon, suggesting we should go back to the way things were.  BEDFORD: That's the easy out. But we're not going there. All the stuff that we've done over 16 years, I think amalgamation clearly can work if you make some changes. The problem with the way it was done: there was no plan. If you go back and compare when Metro Toronto was formed in 1954, Premier Leslie Frost, two or three years prior to that, they had a huge commission of people studying different governance models around the world, and what would be best suited to a made-in-Toronto solution in the early 50s. And they came up with the two-tier governance model, it was brilliant and wildly successful, and copied around the world. And then we got rid of it. Let's make amalgamation work more effectively, let's get the best of both worlds here.\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchener-Waterloo area<\/a>, located just an hour southwest of Toronto, and where I called home from ages eight to twenty-three, they have seen a boom in population due not only to tech companies moving into the region, like Google, but also its relative proximity to the Greater Toronto Area. Instead of resting on its existing public transportation\u00a0<em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0a system of buses running every fifteen to thirty minutes on average <em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0the region has approved a massive light rail project that will connect the northernmost area of Waterloo to the southern sections of Kitchener, eventually extending even further southeast to Cambridge. This LRT system will act as a gateway to the local universities, the large tech companies, as well as a link to the VIA Rail station that will also start serving GO Transit Rail, getting commuters to and from the GTA, ultimately easing the immense traffic congestion most residents experience daily. It is a far cry from what I grew up with, and it\u2019s an exciting step forward that sets an excellent example for other suburban cities of what can be achieved outside the urban centres.<\/p>\n<p>If planners in both major city centres and suburban areas can recognize and meet the needs of the Millennials as they go from young adulthood to the mid-life, the future of transportation could look very different from what many experience today. Providing comprehensive public transportation options will allow habits created in their twenties continue realistically into their thirties and forties, reducing their dependence on the private automobile. Investing in better bike infrastructure not solely in city centres, but also more suburban areas will mean, as Millennials begin to have a family, they will feel safe travelling with their most precious of cargo, even on two wheels. It will encourage a healthy and active lifestyle for both parent and child, and even allow more time together as a family, improving their overall quality of life. Even car share schemes will have to look at broadening their scope to include the dispersed city, in order to meet the growing need. If all these options can come together to facilitate the changing needs of this generation as it ages, while the transportation model will look drastically different from that of their parents\u2019, it will set cities across the country up to be successful, and, trust me, we will all be better for it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note: this is Part 2 of a two-part series. <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2014\/10\/08\/moving-millennials-generation-changing-mobility\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a> examines the emergence of current trends in mobility, driven by Millennials in urban centres.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Melissa Bruntlett<\/strong> lives and works in Vancouver, BC with her husband, Chris and their two children. Melissa, with Chris, co-founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modacitylife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Modacity<\/a>, a multi-service consultancy, focused on inspiring healthier, happier, simpler forms of urban mobility through words, photography and film.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Chris Bruntlett<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cities-for-people-logo-NEW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4579\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cities-for-people-logo-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Cities-for-people-logo-NEW\" width=\"150\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0The Cities For People features are a project between\u00a0<em>Spacing<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/citiesforpeople.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Cities For People<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote in Part One of this series, Millennials are currently playing a significant role in how cities adapt to moving large numbers of citizens efficiently. 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