VoiceofAlbertanswithDisabilities

Michelle Bissell, education co-ordinator with the Voice of Albertans with Disabilities (VAD) Society uses an electric wheelchair to get around and has become an expert of sorts in the problems sidewalk gaps create. To help fill the gaps, Paths for People first launched an initiative in 2019 to identify the problem of sidewalks that are missing sections or that abruptly end. As a result the city has built about five kilometres of sidewalk to fill the gaps, injecting more than $17 million into sidewalk construction.

Paths for People, director Jason Wang says it time to relaunch and refresh the program because so much has changed in Edmonton. Paths for People is asking people to tell them and to tell the city where the gaps are because they know their local communities best and you can help do that by going https://pathsforpeople.org.

Natalie Lazurko, director of transportation planning and design says the Paths for People's missing minks initiative aligns with the city's goal to create accessible communities for residents.