STORIES & NEWS
Walking and health: Why designing streets for walkability is beneficial for public health
We believe that walking is much more than its movement and utilitarian purposes; it is a means to socialize with others and feel belonging in your community, equitably access key destinations, contribute to sustainability outcomes, and improve physical and mental health.
Living Streets are grateful for having many walkers this year and hopes to engage the community even more in 2023!
What a fantastic year of walking it has been! Living Streets had an eventful and successful 2022, and we are grateful to have engaged with so many walkers and promoted the benefits of walking.
Walk30 Week 1 Theme: Active Transportation
More and more people are choosing active transportation as an affordable, environmentally sustainable, and healthy way to get to their destinations without a car! So what is active transportation, anyway?
Black History Month: Take a walk through Hogan's Alley
Do you know where BEST office is? From the SkyTrain station, walk up the busy and wide Quebec Street to the Georgia Viaduct at Union Street. Here you will find your first mural part of an ongoing process of reclaiming Black visibility in Strathcona. To experience the powerful stories behind the murals, BEST team went for a walk together. Keep reading for all the details.
Living Streets Manager Isabel Garcia Joins the Global Walkability Correspondents Network
Pedestrian Space is a media and advocacy project that documents and explores walkability as a central aspect of sustainable urbanism. The platform is also dedicated to inspiring and engaging in dialogue about the reduction of car dependence as a critical and global issue. Here’s what Isabel had to share with Pedestrian Space.
Take a walk this winter!
The fresh, crisp winter air, sparkling holiday lights, and calmer streets are lovely at this time of year. We organized three Winter Festive Walks in different areas in Metro Vancouver: the Spirit Trail/Lonsdale Quay on the North Shore, Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam, and Mount Pleasant in Vancouver. TransLink kindly provided Compass Cards for participants when we used transit to get to our location, and we showed participants how to reload their cards for future use!
Walking into the new season
If the colder days, the falling leaves, and the rain in the forecast haven’t made a dent yet, we are here to tell you: It is Walktober!
Surrey Walks Fleetwood and Crescent Park
Here we show you two of the remaining walks of the summer edition of Surrey Walks. Both routes and enclaves are the right options to go with family and little kids. It took us near to 1 hour to complete, but they are not longer than 3km.
VMF - Foundations tour
Did you say let's go for a walk on a summer night? We don't know about you, but we couldn't resist such an offer, especially if you are telling us stories about the streets we usually wander.
Green Timbers Urban Forest with Surrey Walks
For the second day of volunteer-led walks from the City of Surrey, we did a 2.3 km route around Green Timbers Urban Forest.
Surrey Walks - and we couldn’t resist joining!
From Living Streets, we couldn't miss the opportunity to join Surrey Walks and their Saturday morning tours. Check this one around Bear Creek Park.
Now trending: #WALKING
We read that we stopped walking for commuting but we have walked in a more pleasurable way. We have been discovering our neighbourhoods and we have claimed the streets for our on-foot trips.
Walking gets you from A to B
Walking with a purpose saves you time during the day and makes you feel with a higher level of accomplishment than circling a race track. Being able to step outside and go to the market for your groceries, or realize that school is just a couple of blocks away is only one of the benefits of pursuing this urban trend.