Active Transportation

 

Walking or cycling is a healthy, environmentally friendly way to get to work, school, shopping or just plain recreation.

The Simcoe County Active Transportation Committee is supported by Good for Life and works to improve active transportation and for development of new infrastructure that allows people to use human-powered forms of travel more often. This includes not just walking and cycling but wheelchairs, in-line skating, skate boarding, cross-country skiing, canoeing and kayaking.

Terms of reference

Simcoe County Active Transportation Workplan

 

Other Resources

A municipal planner’s checklist (from Haliburton-Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit)

Fact sheets – Information about air quality, active transportation and healthy communities with suggested actions for improving health through decisions related to land use planning and community design:

•  A Case for Active Transportation (Municipal version)

•  A Case for Better Air (Municipal version)

•  A Case for Healthy Communities

“Healthy Communities, Sustainable Communities” – a position paper by the Ontario Professional Planners Institute that focuses on healthy and sustainable communities and emphasizes the importance of urban design, active transportation, and green infrastructure.

For more information about the Simcoe County Active Transportation Committee and/or how you can be involved please contact Julie Cloutier, Good for Life Project Coordinator at julie.cloutier@smdhu.org or (705) 721-7520 ext. 7337.