Stu Ramsey asks:
As you may know, one of the transportation principles identified by Smart Growth BC states: “Transportation decisions and investments … [should be]guided by the Transportation Hierarchy: walking, cycling, public transit, goods and commercial services, high occupancy vehicles, [and] single occupant vehicles”.
The City of Burnaby is considering adopting this Transportation Hierarchy. I would like to find out if there are other cities that have adopted a similar policy. I know of Vancouver. Are there other examples, locally, nationally, or internationally? Bonus points if you can provide links or attachments.
Thanks for any and all responses.
Stu Ramsey – Manager, Transportation Planning, City of Burnaby
The City of Victoria has this hierarchy in its draft Downtown Core Area Plan and is proposing it for inclusion in its new OCP currently in writing. Here is a link to the downtown plan where reference can be found to the hierarchy on page 39 – http://www.victoria.ca/cityhall/pdfs/downtown-core-area-plan-draft-chapter5-hires.pdf
SF has a ‘transit first’ policy, but doesn’t really get specific.
Coquitlam is in the middle of updating it’s Strategic Transportation Plan and may be adopting that transportation hierarchy.
http://www.coquitlam.ca/Business/Developing+Coquitlam/Strategic+Transportation+Plan+Update/default.htm
From the SFU lecture series Surrey has Walking, Transit, Cycling, Trucks, Cars hierarchy
City of York (UK) has employed a similar transportation hierarchy model for many years, e.g. you’ll find it here is their first Local Transport Plan Delivery Report (2001-2006) – see ‘Hierarchy of Transport Users’ on p.7…
http://www.york.gov.uk/content/45053/64877/64891/Local_transport_plan/200403/DelRep_Main