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Designing Cycling FacilitiesThat Are Appropriate For Your

Communitys ContextAlan Callander

Manager, Active Transportation andClimate Action Policy

Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

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What is context design Why use context design Look at how three smaller communities

applied this style of thinking Rossland Grand Forks Nelson

BikeBC Funding

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The Communities

Rossland

Grand Forks

Nelson

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What is context design

Designs that take into account the needs andcharacter of the potential users of theinfrastructure.

Influence Factors: Demographics Type and amount of cycling already being done

Design of surrounding infrastructure Topography Budgets

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Why use context design

Based on communities needs Community support

Attracts the most cyclists possible

Budgets

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Rossland

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Rossland

Population: 3,556

Area: 5,952 ha KMs paved road 38 KMs unpaved road 9 Terrain mountains

Employment Tourism All-season tourist destination. From skiing and

boarding at Red Mountain Resort to mountain bikingand hiking on one of the numerous trails

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RosslandsCentre Star Gulch Trail

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Grand Forks

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Grand Forks

Population: 3,985

Area: 1,098 ha KMs paved road 75 KMs unpaved road 2 Terrain flat valley bottom

Employment Traditional service center for the mines and railway. Today based on the lumber, manufacturing

(insulation), and tourism.

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Grand Forks TCT Pathway

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Nelson

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Nelson Population: 10,230

Area: 1,602 ha KMs paved road 85 KMs unpaved road 21 Terrain located between the mountains and

Kootenay Lake (compact community) Economy Resource based (forestry and mining) Provincial administrative center Tourism is an up and coming sector

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Nelsons Bike TrailsLakeshore Trail

Burlington Northern Trail

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Context Design

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BikeBC Cycling Infrastructure Partnerships Program

$500,000 small projects Provincial Cycling Investment Program

$2.75 M key network projects

Gateway Program Cycling $4 M projects linking to the Gateway program

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/BikeBC/