Investing in your City: Transportation Planning & Traffic Operations

Our weekly "Investing in your City" series continues, highlighting some of the significant investments being made in Burlington and that our community will benefit from.

The City is continuing investments in transportation planning to ensure residents and visitors to our community are able to get around efficiently and safely, whether that be driving, transit, cycling or walking.

The City of Burlington are looking at investments in traffic operations (more pedestrian crossovers), automated speed enforcement, transit signal priority, school safety committee, and more.

Investments:

• Transit signal priority (pilot) - Transit priority measures give transit vehicles priority on congested roadway networks. This, in turn, improves reliability and reduces travel times when compared to travelling by car. Key data and lessons learned from this pilot project will be helpful in identifying other potential applications of transit signal priority across the transit network. Other priority features, such as dedicated transit lanes, will be considered post-2024.

• Vision Zero/Active Transportation – Programming

• Council Approval of Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP) and filing of Notice of Completion for the Master Plan – learn more here.

  • Determine future mobility needs through the development of the Integrated Mobility Plan.

  • Ensure all land use and transportation decisions, from policy-making to budgeting, are integrated and support walking, biking and transit.

  • Development of transportation policy and actions to realize the City's transportation vision and achieve strategic objectives as set out in "A City that Moves."

  • Prepare preliminary functional plans to identify future mobility and active transportation infrastructure needs and provide critical input into the capital budgeting process.

  • Development of transportation policy and actions to realize the City's transportation vision and achieve strategic objectives as set out in "A City that Moves."

  • Prepare preliminary functional plans to identify future transportation infrastructure needs and provide input into the capital budgeting process.

  • Develop, promote and implement programs and initiatives that support the creation of new facilities for walking, biking and transit - provide mobility options that meet transportation planning objectives of providing choice, reducing the reliance on the private automobiles, and managing traffic congestion.

  • Completion of QEW Prosperity Corridor Block Planning Process & Implementation Study (joint study between City, Region and MTO) – expected completion June 2024

  • Enhancing service delivery to include development of an Active Transportation program that supports the implementation of Council-approved Integrated Mobility Plan – expected completion December 2024

  • Enhancing service delivery to develop and administer a City-Wide Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan in support of the Council-approved Integrated Mobility Plan – expected completion June 2025

Related Links

• Previous Investment Highlights:

  • Investing in your City: New Main Street Business Support Strategy

  • Investing in your City: Understanding Your Property Tax Bill

  • Investing in your City: Implementing Updated Red Tape Red Carpet Recommendations

  • Investing in your City: Streamlining Permit Application Process

  • Investing in your City: Updating City's Bylaws

  • Investing in your City: Enhancing Online City Services

  • Investing in your City: Burlington's Housing Strategy

  • Investing in your City: Multi-Year Community Investment Plan & Future Amenities Planning

  • Investing in your City: Expanded Low-Income Tax Rebate Program

  • Investing in your City: Continuing Investments in Stormwater Management, Erosion Control & Drainage Improvements

  • Investing in your City: Upgrades to Burlington's Roads

  • Investing in your City: Upgrades to Burlington's Parks

  • Investing in your City: Upgrades to Community Centres, Arenas & Amenities

  • Investing in your City: Continued Investments in Robert Bateman Community Centre

  • Investing in your City: Continued Investments in Updated Skyway Community Centre & Arena

  • Investing in your City: Free All-Day Transit for Seniors, Review a Free Transit for All Program

  • Investing in your City: More Buses, Drivers & Updated Burlington Transit Multi-Year Accessibility Plan

  • Joint Statement from Mayor & Deputy Mayor for Strategy & Budgets: Joint Statement on Burlington’s 2024 Budget: Focusing on Essentials, Frontline Services & Planning for Future Growth

  • City of Burlington News Release: Burlington Council Finalizes Budget Focused on Essentials, Frontline Services & Preparing for Growth