Tuesday Town - Sudbury Smorgasborg

I've been thinking about a theme for regular Tuesday blogs and settled on a Tuesday Town theme - Links and stories that focus on urban issues for Sudbury.

Last week close to 60 people attended the 2nd workshop of the day from Gil Penolasa of the Walk and Bike For Life Organization at Tom Davies Square with a focus on livable Cities and pedestrian issues including trails, biking, walking and urban planning. Keep an eye out for the follow up Community Action Plan and read one attendees letter


Sudbury City Council is now debating the adoption of a Traffic Calming Policy. . The history of the studies completed to date are available here.

Sudbury Transit Buses were in the news last week with a bus/train collision and the under reported announcement of a $26 million dollar Bus Barn as Sudbury's infrastructure project.

Meanwhile, as the proposed Sudbury School of Architecture is touted as a cure all for what ails the downtown, the City looks to a Building DesignCulture project for inspiration.

And the Imaginesudbury campaign to move the rail lines is termed a pipedream by local media.

Note the similar fate of other recent projects like the StreetScape Project or the Arts Facility and try to ask yourself why is this occurring?

It certainly seems that other northern towns have more success like the Sault, Thunder Bay or NorthBay


Next week on Tuesday Town - some simple solutions and suggestions for sudbury's Design woes.

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