{"id":2014,"date":"2007-06-18T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2007-06-18T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T20:11:04","slug":"walking-to-transit-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/06\/18\/walking-to-transit-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking to transit in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/232\/500765290_a402f24f61.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most people who take transit walk to their transit stop. You would think that transit companies would therefore be very conscious of pedestrian issues, and would make efforts to make sure access to their stops is easy and safe for pedestrians. But often transit companies don&#8217;t really think beyond their own system &#8212; they don&#8217;t take into consideration <em>how<\/em> people get to their stops. Trying to get the TTC to be aware of pedestrian issues has been a regular source of frustration for Toronto pedestrian activists.<\/p>\n<p>But the situation is far worse in Brazil. I recently became aware of a very interesting project by Dylan Passmore, a planning student at the University of Toronto, who studied the many challenges involved in pedestrian access to transit in one of Brazil&#8217;s largest cities: <a href=\"http:\/\/dylanpassmore.com\/Passmore_(2007)_The_Missing_Leg_~_CIP_Web.pdf\">The Missing Leg: The experience of walking to public transit in S\u00e0\u00a3o Paulo, Brazil<\/a> (PDF &#8211; 3MB). It makes for a very interesting read about the pedestrian-transit issue, and although there is a great difference in magnitude, some of the issues are also relevant to Toronto. Passmore&#8217;s work was supervised by Paul Hess, who was co-author of the important pedestrian study <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1322\"><em>Making Toronto&#8217;s Streets<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who take transit walk to their transit stop. You would think that transit companies would therefore be very conscious of pedestrian issues, and would make efforts to make sure access to their stops is easy and safe for pedestrians. But often transit companies don&#8217;t really think beyond their own system &#8212; they don&#8217;t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/06\/18\/walking-to-transit-in-brazil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Walking to transit in Brazil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"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":[8,6],"tags":[1131,4476,6062,21,3835,416,36,19,270],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","category-walking","tag-brazil","tag-co-author","tag-dylan-passmore","tag-other-cities","tag-paul-hess","tag-pdf","tag-resources","tag-toronto","tag-university-of-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walking to transit in Brazil - 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\/06\/18\/walking-to-transit-in-brazil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walking to transit in Brazil - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Most people who take transit walk to their transit stop. 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