South Island Transportation Strategy

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has issued the South Island Transportation Strategy Progress Report (PDF, 8.8MB), which details an updated vision to make travel between the South Island’s growing communities and economic hubs safer, more reliable and convenient.

The South Island Transportation Strategy (PDF, 9.2 MB) was first released in September 2020 to lay the groundwork for future improvements to the ways people get around on southern Vancouver Island.

The strategy focuses on improvements to sustainable travel, transit and active transportation, and strengthening community connection between modes of travel. Advancing these priorities requires ongoing partnerships with Indigenous, local and regional governments and BC Transit.

In addition to the strategy’s initial goals, the refreshed plan includes three new goals to achieve the following:

• Support broader land use and transportation integration including the developing of Transit Oriented Communities (TOCs)
• Facilitate sustainable goods movement
• Provide transportation infrastructure that is resilient and adapted to climate change

The ministry will continue to work with its partners to support the implementation of the short-, medium- and long-term priorities identified in the strategy.

Each of the identified priorities supports the goals of the strategy: to ensure sustainable options for a variety of travel modes, to strengthen connections between travel modes and improve connections between communities, to improve the safety and reliability of the transportation network, and to support and encourage active transportation options.

The strategy is part of CleanBC, a plan to help transform how people move around, while encouraging more active transportation in communities. Improving active transportation on Southern Vancouver Island is also part of the B.C. government’s Active Transportation Strategy, Move. Commute. Connect. 

Documents

• South Island Transportation Strategy (PDF, 9.2 MB)
• South Island Transportation Strategy Progress Report (PDF, 8.8MB)
• South Island Transportation Strategy Technical Report No. 1: Transportation Snapshot (PDF, 3.9 MB)
• South Island Transportation Strategy Technical Report No. 2 (PDF, 10.6 MB)