Since the launch of our public engagement on May 3, we've heard from thousands of Metro Vancouverites about how they want the future of transportation to look.
With just shy of 1,400 ideas shared on our Idea Board we've seen conversations around new B-Lines, dynamic schedules, upgraded fare boxes, more public art, crowd control in stations, approaches to ride hailing services, and improvements to SkyTrain cars.
As well as new ideas, surveys are still coming in with nearly 13,000 submissions as of June. The Transport 2050 Survey will stay open until the end of our consultation in Sept. Check out the detailed results on the Buzzer and don't forget to attend one of our community events held throughout the summer.
TransLink is creating a new strategy for the next 30 years of transportation called Transport 2050, and we need your help. Find us at community events throughout the region to tell us how you want to move and live!
Transport 2050 is a regional strategy, so it needs regional input, and that’s why we’ve kicked off our largest ever public engagement. Our outreach team will be at hot events and festivals throughout Metro Vancouver. Take a walk through the engagement bus at the larger festivals!
We want to hear about your values and priorities, and your bold and creative ideas for the future of transportation. Your responses and ideas will shape the next Regional Transportation Strategy. Tell us how Transport 2050 can make life better for current and future generations.
Get involved!
- Chat with a member of the friendly outreach team
- Tell us about your values and priorities in our survey
- Share your bold and creative ideas for the future of transportation on our Ideas Board
- Pick up some cool swag, like our Transport 2050 sticker kit
- Show us your vision for the future: kids and adults can draw the future at our booth
Check out Transport 2050 Summer Tour schedule and come say hello!
| DATE |
EVENT |
LOCATION |
MUNICIPALITY |
| 1-Jun |
Hats Off Day |
Burnaby Heights |
Burnaby |
| 15-Jun |
Car Free Day West End |
Denman Street (Davie to Robson) |
Vancouver |
| 16-Jun |
Main Street Car Free Festival |
Main Street (Broadway to 30th) |
Vancouver |
| 16-Jun |
Maple Ridge Car Free Day |
City Centre |
Maple Ridge |
| 19-Jun |
TransLink Annual General Meeting |
Wilson School of Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond Campus |
Richmond |
| 21-Jun |
National Indigenous Day |
Holland Park
Surrey |
Surrey |
| 22-Jun |
Lynn Valley Days |
Lynn Valley |
North Vancouver |
| 23-Jun |
Belcarra Day |
4500 Tum Tumay Whueton Drive |
Belcarra |
| 27-Jun |
Canada Day |
Thunderbird Community Centre |
Vancouver |
| 1-Jul |
Canada Day |
Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre (Cloverdale) |
Surrey |
| 1-Jul |
Canada Day |
Lions Bay |
Lions Bay |
| 6-Jul |
Khatsahlano Festival |
West 4th Avenue (Burrard to MacDonald) |
Vancouver |
| 7-Jul |
Commercial Drive Car Free Day |
Commercial Drive (Venables to North Grandview) |
Vancouver |
| 14-Jul |
Ambleside Farmers Market |
1000 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver |
West Vancouver |
| 20-Jul |
Fusion Festival |
Holland Park |
Surrey |
| 21-Jul |
Fusion Festival |
Holland Park |
Surrey |
| 26-Jul |
Fridays on Front |
600-block of Front Street |
New Westminster |
| 3-Aug |
White Rock Sea Festival |
Waterfront |
White Rock |
| 5-Aug |
Tsawwassen Sun Fest |
Winskill Park |
Delta |
| 9-Aug |
Fridays on Front |
600-block of Front Street |
New Westminster |
| 10-Aug |
Kaleidoscope Arts Festival |
Town Centre Park |
Coquitlam |
| 18-Aug |
Port Moody Car Free Day |
St. Johns Street (Douglas to Moody) |
Port Moody |
| 30-Aug |
Richmond World Festival |
Richmond Minoru Park |
Richmond |
| 31-Aug |
Richmond World Festival |
Richmond Minoru Park |
Richmond |
| 8-Sep |
Ma Murray Day |
Spirit Park |
Anmore |
| 14-Sep |
Westward Music Festival |
Downtown |
Vancouver |
TransLink is leading the development of Transport 2050, a new long-term transportation strategy for our region. And thousands of you who live, work and play across Metro Vancouver have stepped up to have a say!
Transport 2050 will set out what our region needs to build, do, and provide to meet our transportation needs between now and 2050. And a regional strategy needs regional input, so we’ve launched the largest engagement in our history to ask: What’s important to you? What are your transportation priorities? And, what are your ideas for the future?
After just one month of engagement, Metro Vancouverites have completed almost 9,000 surveys and shared almost 900 bold and creative ideas for the future. Below are some highlights from Phase 1 of engagement but if you haven’t taken part yet – don’t despair! You can participate until September 22.
Ideas | 896 bold and creative ideas
You’ve shared hundreds of diverse and thought-provoking suggestions, with ideas ranging from upgrading transit to improving amenities; embracing technology to changing how we pay for transportation; introducing new services and much, much more.
Ideas related to… |
# |
Ideas related to… |
# |
Transit system |
489 |
Planning or funding |
48 |
User experience |
294 |
Active transportation |
44 |
Interregional travel |
63 |
Road network |
40 |
Other |
50 |
New mobility |
38 |
Congestion or overcrowding |
49 |
Urban freight |
9 |
Some of the ideas submitted that have generated the most votes and online conversations, are:
- Gondolas, everywhere!: including to SFU Burnaby and around the region.
- Repurpose road space: speed up travel, turn street parking into dedicated bus routes or use the space for something else. Add protected bike lanes on commercial streets.
- Turn up the trains: expand SkyTrain hours on weekends and offer West Coast Express all day, everyday.
- More trains: commuter trains to Squamish and Whistler, and connecting major centres in the region. Canada Line from Horseshoe Bay to Tsawwassen.
- SkyTrain livin’: put more housing and amenities around major stations, including shops and more affordable homes.
- Customer comfort matters: offer washrooms at stations and real-time bus updates on displays at major stations.
- How we pay for mobility: introduce congestion pricing to reduce traffic. Put a daily cap on Compass Card charges.
- FerryBus, SeaBus’ little cousin: give locals and tourists alike the chance to use Compass Card to pay to travel on the region’s various waterways.
Once Phase 1 engagement wraps up in September, we’ll publish an engagement report, summarizing what we’ve heard. We’ll then review all the ideas and evaluate which ones will work best for our region. We’ll group the most promising ideas into options and come back to you to help us weigh the trade-offs.
What do you think? Love an idea? Have a different idea to share? Transit over to transport2050.ca and vote, comment, or share your ideas.
Surveys | 8,888 engaged residents
We’ve heard from every one of the 23 municipalities within Metro Vancouver, as well as from people who live outside our service area but commute into our region. Here’s who’s sharing their views in Metro Vancouver:
Abbottsford: 102 |
Langley Township: 250 |
Port Moody: 175 |
Anmore: 6 |
Lions Bay: 9 |
Richmond: 467 |
Belcarra: 2 |
Maple Ridge: 296 |
Surrey: 1,152 |
Bowen Island: 17 |
New Westminster: 518 |
Tsawwassen First Nation: 6 |
Burnaby: 880 |
North Vancouver City: 384 |
Vancouver: 2,899 |
Coquitlam: 462 |
North Vancouver District: 396 |
West Vancouver: 139 |
Delta: 286 |
Pitt Meadows: 49 |
White Rock: 89 |
Langley (City): 76 |
Port Coquitlam: 173 |
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Have you participated yet? Take our survey at transport2050.ca
Next month, we’ll publish another update to let you know how things are going.