Transportation Master Plan
The City of Nanaimo is preparing for its transportation master plan; the first plan of its kind for BC's third oldest city.
Transportation touches every part of our daily lives, affecting how we move, how food, goods and services reach us, how we access employment, our household budgets, what housing choices we make, how our City looks and feels and how we interact with our fellow citizens.
As our City approaches 100,000 people, these issues will become more complex and more important; requiring an overall plan for transportation moving into the future.
The Nanaimo Transportation Master Plan (NTMP) will seek to address mobility issues while fulfilling key objectives of the city's Official Community Plan and the Regional Growth Strategy. The NTMP will guide transportation decisions and have a major impact on how our community moves, looks and grows over the next 20 years.
Keeping Up to Date on the NTMP Process
This site is the main portal for information about the NTMP. We invite you to visit it for updates or to join our mailing list to receive updates on the development of the plan and opportunities for input.
Pre-Plan Consultation (Summer 2011)
Developing the plan is a multi-stage process. Before starting work on the project, we conducted a pre-plan consultation in the summer of 2011 to gain insight into community expectations and areas of interest. Results from the pre-plan consultation can be found here.
Understanding Current Conditions- Data Collection (Spring 2012)
Before we set our course for the future it's important to understand where we are today. Quality information gathered now to build the plan will increase its effectiveness and provide a benchmark for the measurement of future progress. The better we understand our current situation, the better informed our choices will be.
To this end the City will be conducting a number of important transportation surveys this spring. Some of these surveys will measure existing vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist and transit travel across the City, other surveys will ask residents, transit and ferry riders about their trips and will seek to understand the how, why, where and when of our travel choices. Information collected will be used both in the plan process and other planning work over the next 5-10 years.
In addition, the City is preparing for its first Household Travel Survey. This survey, involving a randomly selected sample of households within the City and adjacent areas (approximately 1450) will ask residents to recount their household's trips over a 24hr period. Characteristics of the household, household members and trips will be combined to estimate overall travel behavior of the Community. A separate survey will be conducted with VIU students to capture their travel habits.
Your support and participation will be required to make these surveys a success, to find out more and how you can help, click below.
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Next Steps- Building a Transportation Plan for the Future (Fall 2012-2013)
While building a good base is important it is not the final product. Development of the Transportation Master Plan will require a plan development process to engage the public and stakeholders, define goals and objectives, asses strategies and develop a final plan to carry forward. We currently anticipate starting the plan development process this fall with completion targeted for 2013.
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