Minto Township

Township of Minto (Harriston, Palmerston, Clifford and Minto): this rural farming community is making enormous strides towards becoming walking friendly. Among the many projects in progress are draft developer guidelines to ensure new developments are designed and built with active transportation infrastructure firmly in place with links to local destinations. The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph in motion initiative has helped the local council create a sidewalk policy. Bicycle racks are planned for the downtown along with pedestrian scale street lighting, and sidewalk connections are being assessed to determine needs to connect the school to other walking places. Work is underway to link Harriston and Palmerston to existing recreational trails and utilize this as an active transport corridor between the two villages.

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