{"id":2550,"date":"2007-12-06T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2007-12-06T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:49:38","slug":"help-develop-torontos-walking-strategy-and-other-walking-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/06\/help-develop-torontos-walking-strategy-and-other-walking-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Help develop Toronto’s walking strategy – and other walking notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I’ve noted in passing in some previous posts, the City of Toronto is currently developing a “Walking Strategy” to guide Toronto towards becoming a more walkable city.<\/p>\n

The city is currently in its public consultation phase, and is looking for input from the citizens. It has held three public consultations, which were well-attended, but there are many other walkers out there who it has not yet heard from.<\/p>\n

City staff have put together a discussion document, “Steps Towards a Walkable City,” which lays out the city’s current walking-related policies and some possible future actions. Staff are looking for feedback about what citizens feel are priorities, and ideas that might be added to the strategy.<\/p>\n

I encourage everyone to read the document and send their feedback to the city.<\/p>\n

– Download “Steps Towards a Walkable City”<\/a> (PDF)
\n– See notes from consultations so far and other related documents<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Send your feedback to: pedplan@toronto.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Notes from public consultation, Nov. 8, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

To give an idea of possible feedback, I made a couple of notes from the Nov. 8 public consultation meeting of ideas expressed by people in my breakout group that I found really interesting.<\/p>\n

In response to the “coordinated street furniture program” that the city has adopted, several people noted (as I did in a post<\/a> when the program was being discussed) that there’s a danger that homogenization will create a boring walking environment. One person expressed the need for variety by calling for an “uncoordinated” street furniture program — I thought this was a nice way to put it.<\/p>\n

Another person noted the need to look for where people already want<\/strong> to walk, and put paths there — for example, where footpaths have been worn in, or fences have been cut. Too often these kinds of grassroots paths are treated as problems rather than opportunities to make walking easier.<\/p>\n

There were lots of other great ideas, but I hope many of our readers will provide their own to the city.<\/p>\n

Advance Pedestrian Signals<\/strong><\/p>\n

The city recently approved the concept of introducing advance pedestrian signals in some Toronto intersections. They allow pedestrians to get out into the crossing and establish their presence before cars start turning left, and so are useful for making pedestrian crossings safer at busy one-way streets and T-intersections (they are more widely useful in Quebec where right turns aren’t allowed on a red).<\/p>\n

The city has, in fact, been running a pilot project at the intersection of University and Adelaide — check it out if you are in the area and watch to see how the “walking man” comes on a few seconds before the traffic light turns from red to green when crossing University eastwards.<\/p>\n

Photo by plastictaxi<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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