Canada’s capital city recently completed the first step toward adopting a new Transportation Master Plan.
Canada’s capital city of Ottawa recently approved a new Transportation Master Plan (TMP), setting ambitious goals to improve transportation’s role in growth, climate change, mobility technology, traffic safety, and affordability over the next two decades.
According to an April 26 press release posted on the city’s website, the Ottawa City Council vote approved step one in the TMP process, adopting new policies to guide the city’s planning decisions. Step two will require a capital infrastructure plan that identifies transit and road projects.
A “Highlights” document available online provides additional details about the policies approved by step one. Among the strategies listed in the document to meet the needs of a growing city are coordinating land use and transportation planning, cooperating with other cities and governments in the region, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
The most recent news story on step one of the TMP, written by Laura Glowacki for CBC News, focuses on the TMP’s intentions to close gaps in the city’s bike infrastructure network.
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