If approved by council, the projects would take more than 20 years to implement at existing funding levels, with a price tag around $350M
They came together through public engagement on “missing links” in the active transportation network – more than 1,000 residents dropped virtual pins on a map to indicate these – as well as through councillor input on highest-priority projects in their wards, and a city-wide review with consultants of walking and cycling networks.
Many of the 244 projects that made the cut are ready to move to planning and design, but roughly 50 are just feasibility studies described by staff as having “a high degree of risk or unknown.” Funding and implementation are by no means guaranteed, but this category of project “will assess solutions to important but challenging missing links,” staff wrote in their report to the committee.
“You’re not going to see the kind of walking activity that you see anywhere else if we don’t provide the facilities for them to walk,” said Luloff. “You’re not going to see that kind of demand for active transportation in an area where infrastructure doesn’t exist.”Article content tool offers an interactive map, for those equipped to navigate its layers, showing the 244 projects on the TMP list. It also has a layer showing “in-process active transportation facilities,” which are
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