{"id":4949,"date":"2017-04-06T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:17:05","slug":"april-showers-bring-may-flowers-and-green-rapidway-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/april-showers-bring-may-flowers-and-green-rapidway-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"April showers bring May flowers and green rapidway streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog_Corp_2017_04_04_treePlanting02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4956\" title=\"Blog_Corp_2017_04_04_treePlanting02\" src=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog_Corp_2017_04_04_treePlanting02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog_Corp_2017_04_04_treePlanting02.jpg 448w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog_Corp_2017_04_04_treePlanting02-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: the annual greening of the rapidway!<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the trees, perennials and shrubs already planted as part of the projects on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/project_Hwy7East\">Highway 7 East<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/project_Hwy7VMC\">Highway 7 West<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/project_DavisDrive\">Davis Drive<\/a> will be sprouting and leafing and budding and greening up the streetscape.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, you\u2019ll be seeing crews on Highway 7 West planting in areas that were missed last spring because they were still under construction, making sure the area is as verdant as envisioned!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s essential to the vivaNext projects that the streets are attractive for the people who inhabit the communities around them. Not only that, but studies have shown that living in treed areas have <a title=\"article: theloop.ca - Living on a tree-lines street is better than getting 10k\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theloop.ca\/study-finds-living-on-a-tree-lined-street-is-better-than-getting-10k\/\" target=\"_blank\">can actually have a positive effect on your health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To keep things growing year after year, the <a title=\"blog: planting for beauty and longevity\" href=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/2014\/05\/13\/choosing-plants-for-colour-form-and-structure\/\" target=\"_blank\">species planted have been carefully chosen<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/2011\/11\/15\/new-technology-takes-root-helping-trees-grow\/\">Specially designed soil cell technology<\/a> helps the soil and roots stay as healthy as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The vivaNext project is about much more than delivering great transit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon: the annual greening of the rapidway! Once again, the trees, perennials and shrubs already planted as part of the projects on Highway 7 East, Highway 7 West and Davis Drive will be sprouting and leafing and budding and greening up the streetscape. Not only that, you\u2019ll be seeing crews on Highway 7 West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}