Transit Strategy - About the Project

The City is developing a Transit Strategy that will help us identify the long term vision for Transit. It will guide development of and investment in the transit system, which is a foundational element to building a great city.

• The Transit Strategy will be a long term vision for transit and a 10 year plan of how to move towards that vision, including goals and actions.
• This project is a pilot project for the Council Initiative on Public Engagement. We’re Try new approaches, testing the learnings and making greater efforts to go where people are.
• We’re also working on other policies related to transit including the Transit Service Standards Policy and the Transit Fare Policy.

Timeline

Phase 1: Awareness

The focus of the first part of project was to raise awareness about the project and spark discussion about transit’s role in helping to build the city’s future.

Phase 2a: Gather Ideas

The focus of this phase was gather people's’ vision for transit in Edmonton.

Phase 2b: Prioritize Ideas

In this phase we asked people to help tell us which of the ideas gathered in the previous phase were most important

Phase 3: Explore Trade Offs

The focus of this phase is to have conversations about trade offs and asking people to help us make choices.

Phase 4: Strategy Development

In this phase we will be developing the strategy and supporting policies based on the feedback we received in all the previous phases. We will be taking recommendations to City Council in the Spring of 2017.

For More Information

Transit Strategy Project Team

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