EDMONTON – Winter arrived with a dump of snow and a blast of cold this weekend, prompting Edmonton’s heartiest winter-lovers to puff their icy chests, add another layer, and continue biking to work or running through the river valley.
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A decade ago, the small town of Woodstock, Ga., began taking action against an ugly force threatening its very core: suburban sprawl, whose serpentine streets and isolating cookie-cutter homes were squeezing the edges of its historic—but outdated and quiet—downtown district.
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A group of homeowners in the Laurier Heights neighbourhood are upset the city wants to add a sidewalk and turn the access road in front of their homes into a one-way street.
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CALGARY — Calgary was ranked the least walkable in a Top 10 list of Canada’s biggest cities obtained Tuesday.
Toronto, Edmonton and Brampton were considered more pedestrian-friendly in a report being billed as the first countrywide, apples-to-apples comparison of walkability.
The results were calculated by Walk Score, an American company that “measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle.” Its online tool looks at the distance between addresses and amenities such as grocery stores, restaurants and schools.
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CALGARY — There’s one thing that most Calgarians will agree on.
How great the city’s parks system is and how everyone simply loves all that green space we enjoy.
Count me in that number.
I received affirmation of that recently when I spoke with Dennis Urquhart, business and policy planner for Calgary Parks.
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