Owen Sound - Improving walking, cycling conditions challenging

There’s a growing movement afoot to get local municipalities more pedestrian and cyclist friendly, but barriers are slow to be broken down. Some of the things municipalities can do are design traffic lights to give enough time to pedestrians to cross streets. Another is to lower speed limits, because people are afraid to walk or cycle alongside cars going 80 kilometres an hour. In other cases where road lanes are wider than they need to be for cars, a walking-cycling lane could be installed, he said.