A recent public engagement survey by the City of Calgary reveals surprisingly high levels of support for future investments in a diversity of transportation options, including walking and cycling. Some snippets:
• 86% of Calgarians support increasing mobility choices by shifting the focus of transportation infrastructure to more sustainable modes (namely walking, cycling and transit);
• 86% of Calgarians support the construction of complete streets that meet the needs of all users (pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, goods and services and automobiles)
See the full blog post here:
http://www.calgary.ca/getinvolved/Pages/Investing-in-Mobility---Transpor...
Being 3 decades car-free stuns work colleagues
Submitted by goforstars on
Meanwhile today, at work meeting, 3 work colleagues at meeting were stunned that I had been car-free for the last 30 yrs. And I reminded them I had lived and worked in Toronto, Vancouver and now, Calgary during that time. I lived no further than a 15 min. walk to the closest LRT/subway stop. Of course, over past 2 decades, cycling often to work.
It probably helps when growing up outside of Toronto in another city, our family didn't have a car for the first 14 yrs. (Too poor, there were 6 children.) We lived in the downtown area. :) 10 min. walk to local transit bus stop.
(Of course, work colleagues were amazed that I didn't have a tv in past few years, on top of not having a tv for over a decade during a chunk of my life...another story.
) I am culturally deficient --no car, no tv. Shocking.
On the one hand, I suppose we
Submitted by chrisguy on
On the one hand, I suppose we're seeing a glimmer of recognition from the City that there are alternatives to the Single Occupancy Vehicle and LRT extensions as ways to move folks around town. To date most of what gets built by Transportation caters exclusively to these two modes (heck, show me the list of T-Deps projects and what was spent on cycling per project and I will happiily retract if I'm wrong).
Clearly, the next logical step is to put some content on the internet and make it look like something's happening....Now I just need someone to explain to me how many years it's going to take to transform the shiny new Calgary.ca web content into some 'for-real' safe bicycle infrastructure. Current bike lane delivery rates of several fractions of a kilometer per year looks pretty dismal from where we are today.
Just saying.