West Island Living: There’s more to walkable streets than sidewalks

Living in the suburbs can mean doing a lot of driving, especially if you work downtown. Most of the West Island and Off-Island is designed to be profoundly unwalkable. Vaudreuil-Dorion, for example, is dominated by strip malls so sprawling that shoppers actually have to repark their cars when going to more than one store.
 Yet if you pay attention to local politics, you may notice that every town around seems to be working on sustainable development or environmental policies to try to reduc