Innovation Anthology #330:
Sometimes what’s old is new again.
That adage certainly applies to one means of getting around at the proposed Rampart Avenir Community for Clean Technology near St. Albert.
According to project director and engineer David Bromley, not only will the community be designed to encourage foot and bike traffic, Avenir will also pay homage to the historic Dutch means of travel in winter.
DAVID BROMLEY: One of the things that we’ve looked here is a trail system in general. I think there’s going to be over 10 kilometers in trails. But some of those trails are actually going to be skating trails. And the neat part about skating trails of course is that they give you an opportunity to use a trail well in the winter time. And so if you can think about it, obviously a winter community. And being able to skate down to the commercial area and have a coffee, I guess you’d probably put the skateguards on and take them off again, skate a little further, and maybe look in a shop or so and then go home. I think that’s a neat concept.
And one of the aspects we’re going to do with the skating trail, just to again create the communication of the fact that this is a community with clean technology community, is that the water that would be used in the skating trails would be reused water.
David Bromley says parks and commercial outlets at Avenir will be located within 200 to 400 meters from residential areas.
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Program Date: 2010-08-12