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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/