afransen
Senior Member
Guessing that you own those vehicles because affordability is not a problem.Good points, but isn’t the horse already out of the stable, the die cast, so to speak? The outer city and the suburbs are fully developed with car dependent housing. How do we go about changing somewhere like the Rouge area in Scarborough (Walkability score 42 out of 100) or Princess-Rosethorn in Etobicoke (scored 44) into something like my Cabbagetown neighbourhood and its 93 score? This isn’t Sim City where we can just wipe the map.
Mind you, walkability or not, we still have two cars and a motorcycle. Though one car hasn’t moved in weeks.
Zoning reform allowing more small-scale commercial uses and residential intensification in residential zones will help. It's going to take time though. Not sure these are even the worst neighbourhoods, as they are not completely cul-de-sac.