FAQs
- Engineering: Creating safe and convenient places to walk and ride.
- Education: Giving people of all ages and abilities the skills and confidence to ride.
- Encouragement: Creating a strong bike culture that welcomes and celebrates bicycling and walking.
- Enforcement: Ensuring safe roads for all users.
- Evaluation & Planning: Planning for bicycling and walking as a safe and viable transportation options.
- Create more livable communities;
- Reduce vehicle-related air pollution;
- Reduce traffic congestion for all road user;
- Take our Survey – will be available in June 2023
- Come to our Public Meeting – July 2023
- Ask a question or leave a comment for the Project manager
What is "active transportation"?
Active Transportation is basically any form of human‐powered transportation. Walking and cycling are the most popular and well known forms of active transportation. However, the definition extends much further than that – as long as it is "active," you choose the mode: skateboarding, wheeling, pushing a stroller, accessing transit, in-line skating, using a mobility aid, etc. Active transportation is any active trip you make to get yourself, or others, from one place to another ‐ whether it's to work, school, the store or to visit with friends.
Why does Port Colborne need an Active Transportation Master Plan?
The City of Port Colborne is dedicated to becoming a “bicycle and walk friendly community” that fosters and promotes active transportation, where residents and visitors can easily access community and neighbourhood destinations as well as employment areas through the use of a safe, connected, and convenient network of on-road and off-road active transportation facilities.
Becoming a bicycle and walk friendly community involves addressing and delivering a number of essential priorities (plans, projects, programs, etc.), that are categorized according to:
The City’s Active Transportation Master Plan will define our vision priorities in each of the aforementioned categories and provide staff with the framework to address/implement each.
What are benefits of "active transportation"?
The benefits of active transportation also extend to other road users and more generally, the broader community. For example, active transportation helps to:
How can I get involved?
A primary objective in the development of the ATMP and an emphasis made in the retention of the consulting team for the project is the design of an innovative consultation processes that would maximize the opportunities for public outreach, learning and sharing. The general public and stakeholders are being invited to provide input in a variety of ways: