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Expanding Access To Bike Share
One of the challenges of the Bike Share system, like all forms of public transportation, is encouraging and ensuring that a broad diversity of people, ages, genders, cultural and racial backgrounds, as well as physical abilities and incomes can access this public resource. In that vein, the Everyone Rides Initiative (ERI) is dedicated to making…
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Inclusion by design: Understanding inclusive infrastructure investment in Canada
The Government of Canada’s long-term investment plan for infrastructure is an opportunity to reshape the country through many direct and collaborative projects with provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous partners and the private sector. The plan identifies regional differences, such as large versus small communities, as well as rural, northern and Indigenous communities that face particular infrastructure…
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The Economic Value of Heritage
The value of heritage buildings is a hot topic in communities across North America. Many people value these buildings. They display style and workmanship that we often do not see with new buildings, and they connect us to our city’s history. They do much to establish the character of a street, and form the backbone…
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How Pedestrian and Transit-Oriented Environments Attract Creative Jobs
While it is understood that pedestrian friendly and transit-oriented environments are elements of good planning, they are also starting to be understood as good business. The broader municipal decision-making community is realizing the important connection between transit, walkability and economic development. The US-based Progressive Policy Institute’s comprehensive study of American urban centres, called the Metropolitan…
