karen louise smith

Below is a brief summary of my most recent post at Metronauts on goods movement in the GTHA. This post is a summary of discussion topics from a public meeting.

A number of themes emerged at the Metro Hall meet up on Nov. 18th, 2008, when transit interested individuals discussed goods movement. Some of our discussion points originated from the Metrolinx Green Paper on goods movement, others reflected the interests of the group. My summary of our discussion is listed below:

1) The bigger geographic picture

2) Impacting change through local urban efficiencies

3) The interlinked nature of moving goods and moving people

4) Understanding models

5) Seeing new possibilities

I sent off my registration materials today for the Learning Democracy by Doing: Alternative Practices in Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy conference at OISE, University of Toronto. The conference runs October 16-18, 2008.