What’s Next?
Follow our steps to walkability in the region

The Vancouver Walk21 Conference brought together an impressive international community of professionals to talk about legible walkability and how walking as a principle can create sustainable healthy places to walk to and to live in. We discussed the best practices in creating walking environments and how best to transform the automobile city into places that champion walkability. Walking policy is supportive of sustainable communities, enhances social interaction and development and encourages communities that allow aging in place, and communities that enrich public space experiences.

The steering committee of the Walk21 conference will re-form and will continue meeting to work on the regional issues surrounding walking. Composed of the municipalities in the region, the two health authorities, the two universities and the regional transportation and regional governmental authority, the new WalkMetroVan Society will:

• encourage each of the 21 municipalities in the region to sign the Walk 21 Charter, with its eight principles for encouraging walkability, and

• encourage and support a yearly symposium to bring together multidisciplinary practitioners in municipalities, health authorities and universities to share the current and emerging best practices, learn from each other, share emerging research and demonstration projects, and support further research. We would also like to bring in speakers on the leading edge of walkability internationally to share their knowledge, and participate in our development.

We invite you to check back on this website for further work and events as they become available. Thank you again to all the delegates of Walk21 Vancouver Metro that made this conference such an outstanding event and success. Thank you so much for coming to "walk in our shoes".

Sincerely,

Sandy James
Conference Chair
Walk21 Metro Vancouver Conference