Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cambridge ON - The future of transportation

The [Cambridge] region is hosting the open forums in a bid to gather feedback on its latest Transportation Master Plan and its Draft Regional Transportation Corridor Guidelines.

The Master Plan has been developed to determine investment priorities and supporting policy for transportation over the next 20 years in the region. Director of Transportation Planning, Graham Vincent, says the region has a broad spectrum of roads all with different uses so the goal is to get maximum value out of each. Vincent tells [Radio Station} 570's Jeff Allan Show that the region is looking to create opportunities for "active transportation" wherever possible. Active transportation includes walking and biking so the region hopes to create pedestrian and cycling-friendly environments where it can. Vincent cites Homer-Watson Boulevard as an example of a road which has a primary purpose of moving vehicular traffic. But he says the boulevard area could have multi-use trails and wider sidewalks introduced to facilitate active transportation.

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