{"id":658,"date":"2010-07-22T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingradio.ca\/?p=658"},"modified":"2013-01-21T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T06:24:09","slug":"spacing-votes-smitherman-talks-walking-while-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2010\/07\/22\/spacing-votes-smitherman-talks-walking-while-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING VOTES: Smitherman talks walking, while walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8170\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-658-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\">http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?powerpress_pinw=658-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\">Download<\/a> (18.3MB) <\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Smitherman - Spacing Votes\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/images\/spacing-radio-votes-smither.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>George Smitherman loves to walk. Earlier this week, in fact, he walked along Eglinton \u2014 all the way across Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing&#8217;s Todd Harrison caught up with him yesterday in Leaside, and they walked and talked until just west of Victoria Park. Todd asked how Smitherman\u2019s vision for Toronto applied to walkability, and what he as mayor would do to improve walking conditions in suburban communities.<\/p>\n<p>Smitherman, however, does not see walking as an issue-in-itself. Integration is his buzzword, and as such, he thinks of walking primarily as a means to connect people to \u201chigher-order\u201d forms of transit. \u201cThe walkability\u2019s got to get you somewhere,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He sees the individual health benefits of walking, but has yet to investigate how walkability initiatives can impact people\u2019s abilities to better traverse their own neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The interview also included discussions about road cuts and the new pavement degradation fee, urban design, bike lanes, public transit, trash, and trees.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Smitherman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgesmitherman.ca\/\" target=\"_self\">mayoral campaign website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/torontomayoralrace\/article\/837763--george-smitherman-s-long-scripted-march\" target=\"_self\"><em>Toronto Star<\/em> article<\/a> about the walk<\/li>\n<li>Spacing Toronto post about the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/01\/10\/new-toronto-public-realm-office-off-and-running\/\" target=\"_self\">City&#8217;s Public Realm office<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paul Hess&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janeswalk.net\/walkability\/studies\/\" target=\"_self\">walkability studies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8172\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-658-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\">http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?powerpress_pinw=658-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3\">Download<\/a> (18.3MB) <\/p><p>http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (18.3MB) George Smitherman loves to walk. Earlier this week, in fact, he walked along Eglinton \u2014 all the way across Toronto. Spacing&#8217;s Todd Harrison caught up with him yesterday in Leaside, and they walked and talked until just west of Victoria Park. Todd asked how Smitherman\u2019s vision for<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2010\/07\/22\/spacing-votes-smitherman-talks-walking-while-walking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;SPACING VOTES: Smitherman talks walking, while walking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[422,423,4,23,429],"tags":[326,53,327,7,28,20,131,47,328],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics","category-transit","category-urban-design","category-walking","tag-george-smitherman","tag-mayor","tag-paul-hess","tag-pedestrian","tag-spacing-votes","tag-suburbs","tag-todd-harrison","tag-toronto","tag-victoria-park"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SPACING VOTES: Smitherman talks walking, while walking - Spacing National<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2010\/07\/22\/spacing-votes-smitherman-talks-walking-while-walking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPACING VOTES: Smitherman talks walking, while walking - Spacing National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/spacingradio-votes-01-smitherman.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (18.3MB) George Smitherman loves to walk. 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