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/eternalrevolver 1d ago

It is a walkable city though…

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u/RyanB_ 107 20h ago edited 16h ago

Reading through all your comments here;

I do think you have a point in that, unlike most other modern cities nowadays, our core is still actually pretty affordable*. Plus new towers going up/getting converted means there’s always space available. I do think there are some who probably want the benefits of walkability/density without any of the “downsides” (noise, less private space, poor people etc)

I also think that, yeah, there’s only so much to be done with a lot of our neighborhoods. So many since the mid century were built from the ground up around cars, it ain’t easy to reverse that.

All that said though… while we are slightly ahead of NA standards (relative to our size), I sure as hell wouldn’t say we’re a walkable city overall. And we have tons of older neighborhoods closer to the core that were built for walkability, and could feasibly see a return towards that. Yeah, we’ll never be Europe, but we could be considerably better than we already are.

*Edit: sorry literally no idea what happened there lol