{"id":2348,"date":"2007-10-02T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T01:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2007-10-03T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:58:05","slug":"october-is-walking-month-in-toronto-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/02\/october-is-walking-month-in-toronto-really\/","title":{"rendered":"October is Walking Month in Toronto. Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/mayor_signing.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a ceremony to open the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/walk21\/\">Walk21 conference<\/a> in Toronto on Monday night (Oct. 1), Mayor David Miller proclaimed October to be Walking Month under the title &#8220;Toronto Walks On.&#8221; It&#8217;s a good idea &#8212; Octobers were already the month of the &#8220;Toronto Trails Festival&#8221;, they start with International Walk to School Week, and end with that most walking-oriented of special days, Hallowe&#8217;en. A walking month in the fall acts as a kind of complement to Bike Week in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the sum total of publicity or organization for &#8220;Toronto Walks On&#8221; is a photocopied pamphlet, available at City Hall, that sums up walking events during the month (including, charmingly, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontozombiewalk.com\/\">Toronto Zombie Walk<\/a>&#8220;). There wasn&#8217;t even a press release. You can, if you really search hard, find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/proclamations\/2007\/proclamation_towalksonmonth2007.htm\" target=\"_blank\">pop-up of the proclamation<\/a> on the City website, but there&#8217;s not much else about it to be found online.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, City staff who work on these issues have been incredibly busy organizing the Walk21 conference itself. So the proclamation can be seen as a start &#8212; and, next year, we can hope that there will be some budget and staff time allocated to publicity and coordination.<\/p>\n<p>Under the radar, City staff have also been hard at work developing something far more substantial &#8212; a series of practical steps that can be taken quickly to make Toronto a more walkable city, as well as a more bikeable and transit-friendly one. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/mmis\/2007\/pw\/bgrd\/backgroundfile-7193.pdf\">proposals<\/a> (PDF) go before the Works Committee tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct. 3), and if they pass unmolested, these measures will mark a substantial step towards implementing pedestrian-friendly policies in Toronto. It&#8217;s a little disconcerting to find the City putting more effort into its deeds than into its words for a change, but it&#8217;s a welcome development. Better to invest effort in real changes on the street than in the good public relations of walking month, however worthy &#8212; but hopefully next year, we&#8217;ll see progress on both.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, it&#8217;s looking like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/261715\">good month for pedestrians<\/a>. And I haven&#8217;t even talked about the release of the Toronto Walking Strategy discussion document yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 At a ceremony to open the Walk21 conference in Toronto on Monday night (Oct. 1), Mayor David Miller proclaimed October to be Walking Month under the title &#8220;Toronto Walks On.&#8221; It&#8217;s a good idea &#8212; Octobers were already the month of the &#8220;Toronto Trails Festival&#8221;, they start with International Walk to School Week, and<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/02\/october-is-walking-month-in-toronto-really\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;October is Walking Month in Toronto. 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