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RSS Feeds28 per cent of Toronto households don´t have a car - including many suburban homes. Here´s how they make it work
(The Star Environment)

 
 

23 july 2018 09:57:46

 
28 per cent of Toronto households don´t have a car - including many suburban homes. Here´s how they make it work
(The Star Environment)
 


Every week, Etobicoke’s Frank Theriault rides 280 kilometres on his bike.It takes Jennifer Bougouneau Grant an hour to get from her home in Whitby to her bank in Scarborough. Josh Carr lives in Etobicoke, and is looking forward to buying a car when it makes financial sense.According to the Transportation Tomorrow Survey, released earlier this year based on 2016 data, 28 per cent of households in Toronto do not have a vehicle. In downtown wards, as many as 55 per cent of households don’t own a vehicle.But in the ’burbs of Toronto and the surrounding area, car ownership isn’t necessarily the mainstay it’s often assumed to be. Near Lawrence Ave. and Keele St. or Hwy. 401 and Markham Rd., the percentage of households without cars checks in at 32 and 25 per cent, respectively.And according to Liz Sutherland, interim director of advocacy and government relations at Cycle Toronto, the suburban areas of Toronto actually have an advantage over downtown in incorporating pedestrian and cyclist-friendly infrastructure, something she’d like to see more of.“It’s actually not that difficult in the suburbs,” Sutherland said. “Many of the arterial (roads) have space in the boulevard, or they have very wide traffic lanes. So you can actually create separated, often sidewalk level, cycling infrastructure without taking away any length of traffic or parking or sidewalk space.”The Star spoke to suburbanites to find out how they make a car-free lifestyle work for them.‘It’s gonna be bike 99 per cent of the time’Frank Theriault got rid of his car in 1996 and hasn’t looked back. The 61-year-old from Etobicoke primarily uses a bike to get around the city. He racks up 280 kilometres a week on two wheels. If his bike is out of commission or he’s travelling with his partner, who doesn’t bike, he will rely on transit.“Anything that’s beyond a walking distance, it’s gonna b ...


 
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