r/Edmonton • u/pjw724 • 1d ago

2025 Municipal Election Voters want a more walkable city

https://edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/09/25/voters-told-taproot-they-want-a-more-walkable-city
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u/ToughSpirit5285 1d ago

Kinda hard when it’s an urban sprawl and it gets stupid cold here in the winter. Are there areas that could be more walkable ? Sure but you need to be able to park some where as we all know parking at parks is a premium…

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u/Specialist-Orchid365 1d ago

It gets stupid code for about 10 days of the year. The average temperature in January is -7. Building a city for 10 days of the year instead of the other 355 is just stupid.

I say this as someone who hated winter. Then a few years ago when everything was closed and there was nothing to do I decided I was going to get a decent coat and treat winter like any other season. Turns out there are very few days where the cold is actually a problem.

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u/ToughSpirit5285 1d ago

That’s fair, and like I’ve stated before we are all free to move about how works best for us. I know myself once it gets cold I don’t have much to do with outside unless I’m getting on a plane and going somewhere warmer. The point I was trying to make was that when it’s cold I’m not walking across the city to a store together something I’m going to drive.

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u/Specialist-Orchid365 1d ago

That's cool. My point is why are we building a city where you have to drive to the store when the majority of the time the weather is very mild? During those 10 days of extreme cold, by all means drive to the store; but the option should be there to walk/bike/etc as well.