Transportation Enters the Public Consultation Phase of Climate Emergency Action Plan
Between 2007 and 2018, Vancouver did something remarkable. Guided by its Greenest City Action Plan, the city and its residents cut carbon emissions by 12%.
During that time, council and staff began to envision using that plan’s success to inform the next plan, which would become the most ambitious yet in terms of making our communities safer, healthier, and greener.
It would become the Climate Emergency Action Plan — announced just months after City Council declared a climate emergency — which proposes to mitigate some of the causes and effects of climate change by focusing on providing services and amenities close to where people live.
Sustainable transportation plays an integral part of the plan, which is why calls one of its strategic pillars How We Move. As the city states in the How We Move targets and actions document released last month:
We can reduce the number of single occupancy vehicle trips by increasing the convenience of active transportation and public transit and then support the rapid transition to electric vehicles for those remaining trips.
How We Move is all about embracing this next 10-year challenge — accelerating our collective and individual actions to further reduce carbon emissions, and achieve 2030 targets:
90% of people will live within an easy walk and roll of their daily needs.
2/3 of trips in Vancouver will be by active transportation and transit.
50% of total distance driven on Vancouver’s roads will be by zero emissions vehicles.
Actions proposed by the city's Transportation team vary, including transportation pricing in core areas, expanding and improving the active transportation network, improving bus service, and expanding the electrical charging network and its facilities and fleet support.
While we wait for some of these actions to take shape in the city, what can you do?
From now until April 22, participate in the City's Climate Emergency Survey - your feedback will help inform the 5-year Climate Emergency Action Plan that will be brought to Council in October 2020.
Attend the Climate Emergency Online Public Dialogue on "How We Move" - Tue, March 31, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:00
For more information, visit the City of Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Action Plan webpage.
