Esquimalt’s Active Transportation Network Plan

Have your say in developing Esquimalt’s first Active Transportation Network Plan!

Get involved

There are multiple ways to share your feedback! You could check out:

• Complete the survey to help us better understand the existing barriers, issues, and opportunities surrounding the community’s existing active transportation network.
• Complete the mapping tool to identify locations in the Township where improvements are needed to make it easier to walk and bike around town. Check out the pedestrian map and the bike map.
• Share an idea here!
• And let us know if you have a specific question about the project here.

What is the Active Transportation Network Plan?

The Township of Esquimalt adopted its Official Community Plan(External link) (OCP) in 2018. The OCP includes specific objectives to help improve conditions for people walking and cycling. Building on these objectives, the Township is the process of developing its first Active Transportation Network Plan (ATNP). The purpose of the plan is to:

• identify gaps in the pedestrian and cycling network;
• improve the quality and experience for people walking, biking and rolling;
• provide a roadmap for high priority improvements over the short-term (5 years), medium-term (10 years), and long-term (10+years); and
• increase the share of trips completed by active transportation and to more broadly reach the climate targets set out in the Official Community Plan.

What is Active Transportation?

Active transportation, as defined in the BC Active Transportation Design Guide, includes any form of human-powered transportation, including walking, cycling, or rolling using a skateboard, in-line skates, wheelchair or other wheel-based forms of human-powered transportation.