PathsForPeople
Check out advocacy work underway + we're hosting a special AGM this year to celebrate 10 years! 🚶🧑🦽🚴
Join us at our AGM on April 20th!
Register to attend this special in-person event where we will recap our 10th year and celebrate how far we've come. We'll review the past year of advocacy, finances, and elect new board members, then stick around for questions, socializing, and a treat.
Help show the love for Whyte Ave! 
Paths for People is teaming up with Edmonton Transit Riders, the Old Strathcona Business Association, and the French Quarter BIA to ensure renewal and BRT are done right along Whyte Avenue. Continued vibrancy depends on coordinated renewal and transit planning. Every voice saying such sharpens our ability to advocate at Council during the upcoming 4-year Capital Budget discussions this Fall.
Learn more and complete the survey here!
Also complete the City's Budget Engagement Survey
Help us save the Whyte Avenue scramble crosswalks!
Back in January we talked about how we love that Transit Priority Measures are coming to Whyte Avenue, including some pedestrian focused improvements BUT also noted that we think the City’s plan to remove scramble crosswalks is a mistake! Well others are upset too and there's been lots of talk about it on socials (linked above);
Scramble intersections are a proven Vision Zero tool that eliminates conflict points between cars and humans. We want faster buses too, but we shouldn’t have to sacrifice pedestrian safety to get them. We also disagree with some of the statements made in the project team's posted FAQ.
We’re asking the project team to find efficiencies elsewhere, like with solutions proposed as part of the Old Strathcona Public Realm Strategy, in order to maintain scramble crossings as they are the safest option.
Want to help us save the scrambles? Email your councillor and cc us (info@pathsforpeople.org) or tag them on our instagram post in the comments!
For years 76 Avenue has been a major east/west route connecting the Ritchie and King Edward Park neighbourhoods. Part of the route includes crossing the Mill Creek Ravine which it currently does with the roadway built on top a culvert. The city’s initial plan was to perform maintenance on the culvert and repair the roadway sometime in the future but that may change.
The city has planned to replace the nearby Mill Creek Ravine trestle bridge and the culvert on 76 Avenue which are included in the 2023-2026 capital budget. After further review the city is considering removing the culvert and building a bridge for vehicular traffic on 76 Avenue instead.
Cheryl Villetard of Paths for People has proposed that the city consider a BOLD idea which is to close the Millcreek portion of 76 Avenue to vehicles, reroute the creek back to ground level and renaturalize the area. Villetard said Paths for People will continue to advocate for the proposal before the city’s work on the trestle bridge begins.
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.