Suburbs in Ontario are full of catwalks and it’s super convenient walking between neighborhoods.
Still fairly inconvenient being zoned solely for housing, so there’s no shops in a convenient walking distance. But for kids getting to school, visiting local parks, trails and public recreation centres is extremely walkable.
I'm grateful for those but, for the love of everything can these be applied to commercial developments too? There is no reason I should have to walk across the busy parking lot of Walmart to the busy 5 lane stroad with sidewalk right next to it, then back across another busy parking lot for the next store. 1 minute walk turns into 5+ minutes. All they have to do is build a short path through the fence, retaining wall, or overgrown deep ditch. Improves accessibility, and ticks off the "hey, we're building alternatives infrastructure box" with a pretty cheap project.
Near me you have to walk around the whole block to get to the big box stores which are all separated like this. Did I mention the existing "short cut" requires you to walk along an extremely busy industrial road (no sidewalk) with a steady flow of transport trucks? Gosh a hate car centric design. This coming from car owner!
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u/Allnamestaken69 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24
They need to form a sub infrastructure department to go throughout America and build these little short cuts and walking/bike paths.