Urban Planner  ●  Business Owner  ●  Experienced CEO  ●  Published Author  ●  Community Leader
Gaëtan Royer for Port Moody Mayor
Please make sure you VOTE Saturday November 15th

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Gaetan Royer wrote the book on sustainable cities. Literally!

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Time for Cities by Gaetan Royer, City Forum Press, 292 pages    timeforcities.ca
Strategies for a sustainable future

Chapter 1.  Time for Cities is Now
Average Town, Canada.  It’s about time. At 4:30 am, Jane gets up for a hockey practice at the local arena. Months ago, dad had to line up at 3:00 am to get her name on that program’s waiting list. The 7:45 am bus spends an hour on a half-hour leg of its route because of traffic congestion. A transit rider waits 30 minutes to watch the bus drive by. It was full 20 minutes ago. “Perhaps it’s time I drive” she thinks. A half-day water connection job takes two days because a 60 year old rusted pipe crumbled under the clamp’s pressure. The fire hall that was needed five years ago is still in the fifth year of the five year capital plan. Response time to a house fire will increase by another 20 seconds this year as growth pours ever more vehicles per hour onto congested roads. Five years added two minutes to the time it takes a fire truck to get to that nice house at the edge of town. Seconds count. At the police dispatch, a computer accurately tracks the number of calls per hour, average on-hold minutes and, tragically, the number of “dropped while on-hold calls.” Transit riders set their alarms back before going to bed. As they did last week. Council’s heated public hearing for an affordable housing project runs until 4:30 am. And that’s when Jane’s family gets up to go to the arena.  It’s all about time. Canadian cities are running out of time.  
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