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Interagency Coordination

Goal 6.2: Encourage effective intra- and inter-regional transportation services through coordination among private, local, regional and provincial agencies.

Objective:

1. Develop and use mechanisms for coordination among private, local, regional and provincial agencies.

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Goal 6.3: Determine the potential for integrating strategic planning, investment and/or operation of all transportation modes within HRM through a Regional Transportation Authority.

Objective:

1. A. Working with the province, establish structure and scope for a Regional Transportation Authority and develop enabling legislation.

 

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Inter-regional Access

Goal 6.4: Work with other levels of government, non-profit agencies and the private sector to encourage convenient and integrated options for inter-regional transportation.

Objectives:

1. Maintain and improve the frequency and quality of air, rail and coach passenger service between HRM and other regions.
   
2. Improve integration between local transportation facilities and services and major inter-regional passenger terminals.

 

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Freight

Goal 6.5: Achieve a reliable, integrated freight transportation system in partnership with other levels of government, non-profit agencies and the private sector.

Objectives:

1. Strengthen the national importance and viability of the entire region as a freight shipping hub for water, rail, truck and air transportation.
   
2. Improve access between freight transportation corridors and the region's intermodal facilities and industrial areas.
   
3. Encourage competitive travel times and improved schedule reliability for moving freight through the region.
   
4. Ensure safe, efficient goods movement.

 

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Transportation Choice

Goal 6.6: Maximize the availability, appeal and use of fiscally sustainable, environmentally responsible and integrated transportation modes.

Objectives:

1. Consider a full range of costs and benefits, including land use, environmental, health and safety implications, in the allocation of transportation funds for infrastructure, services and programs.
   
2. Incorporate downstream effects and parking demand implications into cost/benefit analysis for new transportation infrastructure or services.
   
3. Ensure transit services are accessible, reliable, convenient and comfortable for all users, including persons with disabilities.

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Goal 6.7: Enhance and support the use of alternatives to single-occupancy vehicle trips..

Objectives:

1. Encourage telecommuting, walking, cycling, public transit, vanpools, park and ride, and ridesharing.
   
2. Implement the Blueprint for a Bicycle Friendly HRM in a timely manner.
   
3. Implement the Metro Transit Strategy for short-to-medium term transit system improvements.
   
4. Maximize inter-connectedness between public transit, vanpools, walking and cycling.
   
5. Adopt engineering design and planning standards that are supportive of public transportation, cycling and walking.

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Goal 6.8: Protect, plan and implement opportunities for transit and high occupancy vehicles (HOVs) to bypass road congestion.

Objectives:

1. Encourage the use of water routes, rail corridors, dedicated street lanes and/or Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for transit.
   
2. Implement new high capacity transit (HCT) services in strategic commuter corridors which have potential for supportive land uses, including commercial centres.
   
3. Achieve automobile-competitive travel times for strategic transit routes.
   
4. Obtain legislative authority and implement preferential traffic controls and lanes for car, van pooling and public transportation.

 

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Land Use and Transportation Coordination

Goal 6.9: Ensure land use and urban design support fiscally and environmentally sustainable transportation modes.

Objectives:

1. Build clustered mixed use development within walking distance of high capacity transit stations.
   
2. Ensure land use regulations enable park-and-ride lots.
   
3. Require new transit and cycling facilities in return for reduced parking requirements or as a condition for development agreements or site plan approvals.
   
4. Encourage development with interconnected public streets that are safe and convenient for pedestrians and cyclists, and easily served by transit.

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Goal 6.10: Improve the availability, affordability and convenience of transportation within and between rural communities, in partnership with other levels of government, non-profit agencies and the private sector.

Objectives:

1. Establish strategic priorities, a time frame and funding for rural road improvements.
   
2. Facilitate convenient, accessible and cost effective forms of public transportation service for rural areas.