Traffic Gardens
Traffic Gardens
A traffic garden is a network of connected streets with traffic features that is free of motorized vehicles. Young people and adult learners get to develop confidence by navigating the streets, intersections, and crossings. While learning on-street skills and about safety, they are also developing an understanding of how street interactions work. Traffic gardens can be used in a variety of ways, including as an event space, an active play space, a community gathering space or an instructional space for biking and walking safety.
Thunder Bay currently has one traffic garden located at the West End Park on Clarkson Street, next to Hammarskjold High School.
See coverage of Thunder Bay's first Traffic Garden here.
EcoSuperior recognizes that those of us who don't have the privilege of driving deserve sidewalks, streets, bike lanes, and public transit systems that actually work for us. People of colour, Indigenous people, immigrants, poor people, and disabled people are much less likely to have access to a vehicle. Understanding how our communities work or don't work for us is a matter of racial, economic, and disability justice.
