Portland Mayor Sam Adams on Neighbourhood Grocery Stores
Tags: corner grocery, local grocery store, localism, neighbourhood stores, portland, portland mayor, sam adams, stephen rees, Transportation, Vancouver
The mayor of Portland has helped me to better appreciate my neighbourhood grocery store.
At his lecture yesterday evening on “Active Transportation in Portland,” Portland mayor and former transportation commissioner Sam Adams described his vision of a “20-minute neighbourhood”. It includes grocery stores, laundromats, and pretty much all the services that people need in a typical day. These need to be located close enough together to be reasonably accessible by active (non-motorized) transportation. Since two thirds of the average household’s daily trips are not the “journey-to-work” trips most frequently studied by transportation planners, substantial reductions in car-dependency can be achieved by cutting down on the number of automobile trips that neighbourhood residents make to “pick stuff up”.
Mr. Adams made the surprising suggestion that … Continue Reading
