The Draft Transport 2050 Strategy Is Here! What’s It All About?

1. Supporting walkable, complete, and affordable communities where it’s easy to access most of your daily needs within a kilometre of home and without having to drive.
2. Transforming roads that have been designed primarily for cars into people-first streets designed for everyone. Where all road users, including people with disabilities and people using transit, biking, walking, or rolling, feel safe, comfortable, and connected.
3. Implementing complete networks of traffic-protected bikeways within every urban centre, an 850-kilometre network of major bikeways (map) connecting every urban centre, and abundant bicycle parking everywhere in order to provide active transportation and recreation options that are comfortable for most people to use.
4. Delivering frequent local transit service to within a 5-minute walk of nearly all communities within the urban parts of the region.
5. Serving more people in more parts of the region with fast and reliable transit service by adding approximately 3000 kilometres to our existing 100-kilometre rapid transit network and working with partners to implement new express and interregional connections (map).
6. Prioritizing the movement of transit on roads through more extensive provision of dedicated transit lanes, priority at intersections, and sidewalk extensions at bus stops. This will enable transit users to quickly and reliably get to where they need to go without getting stuck in traffic. It will also allow us to achieve our bold vision for expanding the rapid transit network primarily in dedicated lanes at street level.
7. Expanding shared mobility options across the region so that no matter who you are, where you are, or where you need to go, you’ll have access to a shared bike, e-scooter, or car when you want one.
8. Changing our vehicles and how we fuel them: we’ll support the move to zero-emission vehicles with more charging options and make it easier to use electric bikes and other micromobility devices. Managing the safe and equitable introduction of automated, connected, electrified, and shared vehicles so that they work in support of our region’s goals.
9. Using the power of new digital tools to work towards an efficient, reliable and easy-to-use transportation system. Where everything is seamlessly integrated, everyone can easily plan and make trips that involve multiple modes, curb-side spaces are available when you need them, and traffic headaches are a thing of the past.
10. Ensuring that everyone can afford to get around, with a commitment to universal basic mobility where fares and fees are based on an individual’s ability to pay.

A once-in-a-generation opportunity

We’re working closely with local municipalities, Metro Vancouver, the Province, and Indigenous Nations to develop Transport 2050. At the same time, Metro Vancouver is leading the development of Metro 2050, the new Regional Growth Strategy, and Climate 2050, the region’s climate policy.

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