After a stellar summer we’re beyond thrilled to have expanded our Kids on Wheels program to the UBC neighbourhood for a Fall program!
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Targets to reduce driving by 25% and accelerate mode shifts across B.C. signals a major transformation in transportation. How will the B.C. government follow through?
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More robust efforts are required to improve road safety in BC, especially for vulnerable road users – people travelling on foot, by bike or other active modes of transportation - all of whom continue to face growing risks on our roads. The BCCC recently responded to the B.C government’s latest Road Safety Strategy (released May 2021), calling for additional initiatives, policies and investments to reduce road-related injuries and deaths in British Columbia.
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Major reductions in the carbon impact of our transport systems are urgent and critical. The opportunities are right in front of us. The transportation sector is rapidly evolving, with new and better mobility options. B.C. is well-positioned to seize the momentum and make major investments in active transportation to address climate change. The BCCC recently wrote to the B.C. government on how active transportation can contribute to reducing GHG reductions and a mode-shift away from car-dependent communities, while also providing multiple benefits to British Columbians in the decades ahead.
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Over the past 20 years, residents have voiced their concerns to local officials about feeling unsafe along Cariboo Trail Road. And while their worries were shared by district council, the project seemed out of reach; 100 Mile House pulls in only around $2.6 million in annual tax revenue, and an effective solution was estimated to cost upwards of $1 million.
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BCCC member Brendan Ladner, a Whistler resident, wrote the following post as an open letter to British Columbia’s newly appointed Executive Council members responsible for transportation - Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming, and Minister of State for Infrastructure Bowinn Ma.
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In a recent poll, 70% of Kelowna residents supported the building of a cycling grid in their community. As a result, the city is planning for and promoting active transportation; in their most recent official community plan, the City of Kelowna pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 33% by 2030, and providing transportation options for residents that go beyond the motor vehicle is key.
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We’ve developed a set of transportation policy recommendations in advance of the 2020 provincial general election that we believe expresses the legislative, policy-focused and strategic priorities that would best serve British Columbians. We’re sharing them with BC’s top three political parties, for consideration in their 2020 provincial general election platforms. (And we’re sending them a survey too.)
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How much and where should the province spend on active transportation — walking, cycling and rolling — going forward? This Friday, June 26th at 5:00pm, the public consultation period closes — this is your chance to make a written, audio and video submission, and answer a government survey about how public money should be spent in 2021-22.
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The BC Cycling Coalition has been working with members and stakeholders to develop four sets of recommended actions for the provincial government, which we’ve made public in a document entitled, “Recommendations to the Government of BC: Active Transportation for States of Emergency.”
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This disappointing and somewhat alarming gap in Budget 2020 — and all the related missing pieces in the MoTI Service Plan related to AT — seems to harken back to earlier eras, when cycling was just not part of the provincial conversation. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, active transportation was not really “a thing”, and we had no broad, mainstream cultural imperative driving the everyday discourse towards big, bold moves aimed at resolving existential crises.
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