{"id":1854,"date":"2007-05-07T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2007-05-07T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:27:12","slug":"ontarios-walkable-community-vs-highway-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/07\/ontarios-walkable-community-vs-highway-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario policy of walkable community vs. highway community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/inconduit.com\/gal\/april_21_2007\/col1642.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is just a quick &#8220;did you know?&#8221; post. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mto.gov.on.ca\/english\/about\/bplan\/2002_03.htm#performance\">has a policy<\/a> that requires<em> 93% of provincial residents to live within 10 kilometres of a highway<\/em>, but it doesn&#8217;t have a policy or goal to get Ontarians to live within a walkable community. The government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mto.gov.on.ca\/english\/about\/bplan\/2002_03.htm#vision\">touts how proud they are<\/a> at spending over $1-billion a year on highway upkeep and construction, but never once states that it could reduce those costs if they encouraged residents to drive less by living in more pedestrian-friendly communities. I recognize the important role highways play within our economy, but I&#8217;m always frustrated how little attention (and money) is dedicated towards helping municipalities establish vibrant, walkable neighbourhoods. The government&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pir.gov.on.ca\/English\/growth\/index.html\">Places To Grow<\/a> plan is fine, but it only addresses where sprawl can happen and doesn&#8217;t provide enough information on how to build the right type of developments.<\/p>\n<p>A popular litmus test for a walkable community, developed by Dan Burden of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkable.org\/\">Walkable Communities<\/a>, is called the Popsicle Test: in every neighbourhood there must be some destination worth walking to, close enough that if you walk there to get a popsicle, you could walk there in comfort and walk back without it melting. Since Burden lives in sunny Florida, the test is quite a stringent one.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in a local take on walkable communities, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/ped-dylan01.htm\">you should read the article<\/a> by <em>Spacing<\/em> editor Dylan Reid from the Everyone is a Pedestrian, Summer 2004 issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/inconduit.com\/eye.php\">Adam Krawesky<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick &#8220;did you know?&#8221; post. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has a policy that requires 93% of provincial residents to live within 10 kilometres of a highway, but it doesn&#8217;t have a policy or goal to get Ontarians to live within a walkable community. The government touts how proud they are<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/07\/ontarios-walkable-community-vs-highway-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Ontario policy of walkable community vs. highway community&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"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":[6],"tags":[556,4912,639,1101,636,3650,311,5623,391],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking","tag-adam-krawesky","tag-dan-burden","tag-dylan-reid","tag-florida","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-ministry-of-transportation","tag-spacing-editor","tag-summer","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ontario policy of walkable community vs. highway community - Spacing Toronto<\/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\/toronto\/2007\/05\/07\/ontarios-walkable-community-vs-highway-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ontario policy of walkable community vs. highway community - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is just a quick &#8220;did you know?&#8221; post. 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