By Toon Dressen, Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed, December 19, 2022
Decades of underinvestment in affordable transit, combined with continued expansion of car-dependent suburban communities and a housing affordability crisis, has resulted in communities being built outside the greenbelt. These are some of the fastest-growing neighbourhoods in the city.
...It is not too late to do the following:
• We need to make our communities complete by implementing walkable, accessible, bikeable networks within communities to access services and daily needs within a 15-minute community;