Building design increasingly includes bridges, walkways, for safer foot traffic
As part of an ongoing effort by builders and planners to keep pedestrians safe and away from traffic, developers are looking up – way up – to bridge the gap.
Built by Édyfic Construction, a division of Devimco, the bridge is one of the highest between buildings in North America, similar in length to the bridge in Toronto between the Eaton Centre and Hudson’s Bay Company on Queen St. W., only 24 storeys higher. Pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use projects include The Well at King Street West and Spadina Avenue in Toronto, with four levels of retail over more than 420,000 square feet of retail/commercial space , accessible by three north-south pedestrian streets.“There are pedestrian bridges in other buildings in North America, but the inspiration for our bridge came from a trip to Copenhagen,” Mr. Fontaine says.
Toronto is among many cities that have launched pedestrian safety plans, which, in many cases, have so far failed to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths and injuries significantly., in 2021, 58 people were killed on the city’s roads and 183 were injured seriously, with 27 pedestrian deaths, a small drop from a 10-year high of 78 total traffic fatalities in 2016. While most serious pedestrian accidents take place on busy arterial roads, denser commercial areas are not immune.
“People also want to live, work and shop in buildings that promote wellness, and they want to be in places where there’s a sense of community,” he adds. A development where it’s easy to get around on foot will tend to have these characteristics and be more attractive – and likely more valuable for owners, he explains.
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