Active transportation for Canada. Now!
|
FOR DECADES a movement has been building in this country in support of walking, cycling, and other forms of active transportation. Today, we have a window of opportunity to make major gains.
Download two-page backgrounder. Canada's federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, has signalled her enthusiasm for developing an active transportation strategy. At the Minister's invitation our alliance of walking, cycling, and active school travel organizations has submitted a joint proposal to undertake strategy development. But funding has yet to be secured. It's time for champions of AT to raise our voices in support of a bold strategy that will get us where we want to be: a nation in which walking and cycling are practical, convenient, safe, enjoyable. A nation which supports active transportation for everybody: our young, seniors, women, men — everybody. See more on why a strategy is needed and what it can accomplish for Canada. See the many benefits that active transportation will bring to Canada and Canadian communities. See more about what the strategy will include and how it will be developed. See the exciting new alliance of cycling, walking, and active school travel organizations that propose to lead strategy development, See the broad base of support. Finally, take action to help make it happen. Endorse the call for a federal AT strategy. Write to Minister McKenna and other Ministers whose support is needed to make this happen. Sign up for updates on our campaign and the strategy. Download two-page backgrounder. |
Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Credit: Zara Ansar, xovelo.
See: Instagram.com/xoveloxo
|