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We hope you like our new look! We've made the technological jump to an improved system that will not jam up your e-mail with big attachments and be easier to subscribe to. As always your feedback is welcome!

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Community Toolkit

Our long awaited Community Toolkit is now available! The toolkit, a primer on Walkability, was written in Edmonton by local writer Cheryl Mahaffy with input from a wide variety of professionals and citizens. It is available online on the Walkable Edmonton Website, as well as on compact disc and in printed format. If you would like to receive a copy, call Ian at the Walkable Edmonton office at 944-5339 or e-mail him at Walkableedmonton@edmonton.ca

Walkable Edmonton Webpage

Trails, Paths & Routes Advisory Committee

The Trails, Paths and Routes Advisory Committee are a public consultative group for communication between multi-use trail, walkway and bikeway (on-street) users and the City of Edmonton civic administration. The TPRAC provides advice and input to the City on planning, maintenance, management, emerging issues and special projects pertaining to multi-use trails, paths or bikeways.

Members are drawn from interested citizens representing either specific organizations or types of users.

More on the TPRAC

Jim Diers' Neighbourhood Power

Jim Diers’ ideas & inspiration shared in his presentations to Edmontonian’s back in October of 2006 are coming to life! Thanks to the leadership of Councillor Janice Melnychuk, the City of Edmonton will be creating a Community Matching Fund, which will be piloted as part of the Alberta Avenue Neighbourhood Revitalization Project. Details are currently being worked out, so stay tuned for more information!

River Valley Alliance Releases Plans

On March 15 2007, The River Valley Alliance unveiled a draft Plan of Action for the Capital Region River Valley Park. For over 10 years the shareholder municipalities of The RVA worked together to formulate this draft plan for a world-class metropolitan river front park that would extend from the Town of Devon in the West, through the Counties of Leduc and Parkland, through the City of Edmonton, through the Counties of Sturgeon and Strathcona, and to the City of Fort Saskatchewan in the east.

River Valley Alliance

Running Map.Com

Interested in creating a map and confirming the distance of your favourite walk or run? Local web developer Randy Troppmann has created a website to help you do just that.

www.runningmap.com

Stony Plain Aims to be Walkable

The Town of Stony Plain recently unveiled a new Master Plan produced by Avi Friendman Consultants Inc. The plan aims to make the town west of Edmonton more walkable.

Stony Plain

Spring Cleaning!

Do your part to make our City a more pleasant place to walk...participate in the River Valley or Capital City Clean-up Programs this spring.

Capital City Clean-up

Movie Night - Radiant City

If you're looking for an educational night out at the movies, catch "Radiant City" - a new documentary on urban sprawl by Alberta filmmakers at the Princess April 27th.

Radiant City

Walkable Edmonton

It finally looks like it is time to hang up the snowshoes and get out the walking shoes! We've been busy all winter but we're looking forward to an even busier spring!

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Traffic Justice

March was a bad month for pedestrians in Edmonton. A series of collisions resulting in a number of citizens being injured or killed while crossing in marked crosswalks highlights the lack of priority and respect for pedestrians in our current auto dependant culture.

Certainly Walkable Edmonton has a great deal of work to do to try and have an impact, but we are heartened by the partners working towards the same end - a city where it is easy and safe to be a pedestrian.

Locally the Capital Region Intersection Safety Partnership is working towards similiar goals. Check out their website at: http://www.drivetolive.ca/

In the U.S., the National Centre for Bicycling and Walking has started a Traffic Justice Initiative to "redefine our societal perspective on motor vehicle crashes, and substantially reduce their occurrence."

Traffic Justice Initiative

Dr. Larry Frank is Coming to Town

The Alberta Centre for Active Living invites you to attend their 2007 Physical Activity Forum. Dr. Lawrence Frank, an expert in sustainable transportation, and a panel of experts on physical activity, urban design and the environment will discuss "Promoting Health Through Community Design: Finding the Win-Win Across Multiple Outcomes."

For More Information on Dr. Frank's Visit

Walkable Highlands

Volunteers from the Communities of Highlands and Bellevue are devastated following the outcome of the City’s Transportation and Public Works Committee meeting at the end of February this year.

More on the Highlands Road Diet

My Favourite Walk - Not!

Linda Medland Davis writes about her adventure in trying to see a movie at Gateway Cinemas….

Linda's Story

Winter Trail Clearing

Even though winter has almost gone away, one of the big steps forward this year in year round walkability was the extension of trail clearing during the winter season.

Winter Trail Clearing Program

More Connections

Transportation Utility Corridor Trails

The Transportation Department will be hosting an Open House in late April of this year to present the proposed revised trail connections to the North Saskatchewan River Bridge at Anthony Henday Drive. The combination multi-use/paved trail will link the Terwillegar Drive Pedestrian Bridge to the pedestrian crossing beneath the North Saskatchewan River Bridge and Cameron Heights. Concessions by the Province will allow this trail to be paved, but that has required a change in the location and grade of the trail.

More on the Trail

Sidewalk Strategy

The City Sidewalk Strategy has wrapped up the initial stages of public consultation in a year long process to identify the "missing links" in the sidewalk infrastructure and a process for prioritizing their construction or repair.

The principles developed by the stakeholder groups involved spoke very clearly to promoting Walkability in Edmonton. There is still opportunity for individuals and groups to have input, and there will be additional public meetings to speak to the results of the initial work of the project.

Find Out More About the Strategy

Bicycle Transportation Plan

The City of Edmonton has recently retained Stantec Consulting to undertake an update to the City's Bicycle Transportation Plan (BTP). The BTP is one of the guiding documents for the Transportation Department, dealing with how bicycles are integrated into Edmonton's transportation system. Route expansion, maintenance and engineering standards will be examined, along with bike parking and connections to transit.

The update will commence in March 2007 and stakeholder outreach will occur throughout May and June. The final plan will go to City Council for approval in February 2008. If you would like to be involved as a stakeholder, please contact Claire Ellick at 496-2615 or claire.ellick@edmonton.ca.