Smart Growth is about consuming fewer natural resources while enabling more ambitious development goals. It's about revitalizing our city cores, and making our communities more liveable. It's about quality of life. In our large urban centres, for example, Smart-Growth initiatives will deal with the challenge of gridlock. I'm sure most of us feel that we're spending more time driving than we used to.
Highways are at almost total capacity.
It means more accidents. It means slower response time for emergency vehicles and more wear and tear on roads and bridges. It means lost economic and tourism opportunities as people and goods are tied up in traffic. And it means less time we can spend with our families. It can be overcome.