How can we help improve health outcomes of vulnerable populations with active transportation tools that already exist?
While there are significant health and financial benefits to using active transportation, for some of the most marginalized residents of the city, those who live in social housing, there is not significant uptake of the bike share system. Project: Identify the barriers to active transportation use so that ridership among social housing residents can be increased, and therefore the significant benefits to residents, affordable housing providers, and the wider community can be had.
Opportunity benefits include:
For residents: increased well being, reduced transportation cost, increased social interactions.
For community: improved resident well being may lead to lower healthcare costs as well as more people moving out of the subsidized housing system, which in turn leads to more capacity for new residents, addressing the wait list.
City Staff: Don Curry - Health Promotion Specialist, Healthy and Safe Communities
Faculty: Rebbeca Plett, McMaster University
Course: Anthropology 3PO3: Doing Ethnography
Project Location: Ward 1
Strategic Priorities: Community Engagement and Participation, Economic Prosperity and Growth, Healthy and Safe Communities, Clean and Green, Built Environment and Infrastructure.