Congestion, growing rates of obesity, social inclusion and climate change are just some of the imperatives that demand that we should walk more often. Yet the barriers to walking – physical, social, cultural and institutional – have intensified in many cities in recent years.
Dr Tolley, Director of Walk 21, will share his ideas on how to overcome these barriers.
Walk21 is a London-based international non-government organisation which champions the development of healthy, sustainable and efficient communities where people choose to walk. Walk21 has a vision of a world where people choose and are able to walk as a way to travel, to connect with community, to be healthy and to relax.
One year ago, in November 2010, the then Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope, signed the International Charter for Walking in the presence of Dr Rodney Tolley. Following on from that the ACT Government undertook Walk21 benchmarking survey, 'Make Walking Count'.
