#Transport2050 Update: two weeks to go, have your say before the deadline!
#Transport2050 Update: two weeks to go, have your say before the deadline!
In May, we kicked off Transport 2050, our largest ever public engagement, to ask the people of the region: what kind of transportation future do you want?
With just over two weeks to go before Phase 1 engagement ends on September 22, over 26,000 surveys and 2,000 ideas have been submitted! Not only that, our outreach team has been to nearly every corner of Metro Vancouver – including at the PNE Fair at the Transport 2050 Expo!
The clock is ticking — have you had your say? Tell us about your values, priorities, and ideas for the future before the survey closes on September 22.
What are we hearing? Read on!
Ideas: 2,000+ bold ideas for the future of the region!
Here are some of the new ideas submitted last month with the most active online conversations:
- Customer mobility amenities – bring ‘em on! Connect the Granville Island Bridge deck to Granville Island with an escalator and a staircase. Consider installing moving sidewalks to feed people into SkyTrain stations. Provide multi-level entrances to SkyTrain stations that are built on hills.
- Novel east-west connections: Make it easy to connect between the Canada Line and Expo Line in Surrey and Richmond. Add a rapid transit line or express bus connector.
- And don’t forget about north-south! Start running a Coquitlam to Guildford express service.
- “TransLink GO” – Pokémon GO but for transit: Create a mobile app that rewards transit and active transportation users with rewards, like free passes.
- The future is digital: Link Compass Cards with Apple Wallet to access fare gates. Give Compass Card users get free wi-fi access on board, and in public spaces.
- Water, water everywhere… Install public drinking fountains at SkyTrain stations. Provide more covered areas at SkyTrain stations so customers can stay dry through the wet season.
- Park this! Change the building code – remove parking construction minimums, introduce a parking maximum to rein in cars.
Check out the Transport 2050 Ideas Board – like and comment on existing transportation ideas – or submit your own!
Surveys | 26,000 and counting!
Have you taken our survey? It’s open until September 22.
Surveys submitted by Metro Vancouver municipality and monthly increase in responses
| Municipality | Total submissions | Per cent increase (one month) |
| Anmore | 24 | 100% |
| Belcarra | 21 | 91% |
| Bowen Island | 51 | 55% |
| Burnaby | 2,586 | 53% |
| Coquitlam | 1,363 | 51% |
| Delta | 832 | 68% |
| Langley (City) | 263 | 83% |
| Langley (Township) | 692 | 66% |
| Lions Bay | 31 | 41% |
| Maple Ridge | 574 | 56% |
| New Westminster | 1,252 | 46% |
| North Vancouver (City) | 919 | 47% |
| North Vancouver (District) | 998 | 43% |
| Pitt Meadows | 169 | 99% |
| Port Coquitlam | 879 | 29% |
| Port Moody | 487 | 48% |
| Richmond | 1269 | 61% |
| Surrey | 3,466 | 59% |
| Tsawwassen First Nation | 21 | 163% |
| Vancouver (including University Endowment Lands) | 7,765 | 51% |
| West Vancouver | 362 | 53% |
| White Rock | 283 | 61% |
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Interested in Transport 2050 progress? Check out the August, July, and June updates, and visit transport2050.ca
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