Grants and Contributions

The Project will implement or enhance natural infrastructure distributed across the city, including rainwater tree trenches, wetlands, stream restoration, and hybrid infrastructure such as bioswales and permeable land cover. Once complete, this project will improve water quality and provide climate adaptation and increase flood resilience, species protection, and biodiversity. Furthermore, it will improve livability for residents by reducing urban heat island effects, improving air quality and creating more access to nature.

This project will construct a pedestrian/cyclist bridge with a connection to a recreation trail. The project will include approximately 680m long trail, as well as an approximately 50m long pedestrian bridge with accessible ramps over the CN railway. The project will also include signage, greenery, and new lighting. The multi-use asphalt trail will start in the west at the entry plaza at 63 Observatory Lane across the Observatory Lane Pedestrian/Cyclist Bridge to the residential development on the east side of the Richmond Hill David Dunlap Observatory Park.

Develop a planning and consultation process with a consulting firm in the field of human mobility.

We want to study the possibility of creating active mobility routes for bicycles between the sites selected in the Desjardins Registry (https://registredesjardins.nature-action.qc.ca/) for their tourist potential and via existing bike path networks. Our project is divided into two phases. Phase 1 involves an opportunity study for the development of sustainable mobility circuits connecting Registry sites to existing infrastructure and the creation of special circuits interconnecting the nature sites. At the end of that phase, a preliminary report on the route alignments with the most theoretical potential will be prepared. Phase 2 will involve field characterization of the routes with the best scores. At the end of that phase, we will produce our final report with recommendations, analysis results and a complete map. Georeferenced data will be produced in exportable layers and incorporated into the Desjardins Registry.

Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo is a national cyclist count organized by Vélo Canada Bikes (VCB). The Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo Analysis project will analyze the data collected by the thousands of volunteers and develop it into a shareable format for dozens of communities across Canada to use to help inform their decision making for cycling and active transportation projects. It is anticipated that Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2022 will collect well over 100,000 entries. Work needs to be undertaken to take these raw data and distill it into an informative format.

The Delhi Park Community Connections planning/design project is a unique opportunity to create key active transportation links between neighbourhoods, natural and historical assets, existing paths and trails, as well as businesses and services within the town of Picton. The County would seek qualified services and stakeholder feedback to support the planning/design project necessary to formalize a series of unofficial, unmaintained, unsafe paths and trails currently used by residents and visitors to Picton. Creating community-informed plans for the development of safe, accessible, marked, lit paths that allow people to walk or cycle to access points of key amenities in Picton would tie together a series of siloed projects, and allow for cohesive pedestrian flow. This planning/design project would set the stage for a capital project application and to educate/promote existing active transportation initiatives within the community.

Applicant has two AT infra projects bundled in one application. Assets involved include multi-use paths, a recreation trail, and sections of sidewalk. The project will construct a 315 m long x 3.0 m wide Multi-Use Path, two sections of sidewalk - one (1) 80 m section between the two bridges and one (1) 135 m section at the end of the southern bridge and construction of a 175 m x 2.4 m wide Multi-Use Pathway all to promote active transportation. Projects will lead to greater connectivity with attached community pathways/lead to better trip quality for AT users. 

The applicant, the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail Association (ON) seeks funding to widen the trail to 3m (from 1.5-2m currently), for the 1.6km section specified, install additional wayfinding signage, and repair 5 access gates leading to/from the trail. The applicant states the benefits from this project will be improve accessibility for vulnerable populations (seniors), and improved connectivity to local businesses, and local public institutions. Improvement to the quality of the existing trail, making it more accessible by widening the tread from 1.5-2m to 3 m in width for 1.6 km between Sibley Ave Road and Emily Street North (attached map), installation of signage, and repair to 5 access gate.

The intended project is to attend 11 communities and provide several programing during the spring, summer and fall regarding safe cycling. Such as: Get Lit Pop Up Program in the spring and fall which will help address visibility in low light situations; Wrench It Program in the early summer which will take place at several of the new Bike repair stations located throughout the entire Municipality and to help community members know how to use the unit, as well as empower those to use the infrastructure to ensure equality; Kid Safety Cycling Bike Rodeo will take place in the summer months to help families navigating safe cycling and what is appropriate for children.

This project will develop the City's first Active Transportation Plan. The completed Active Transportation Plan will identify a sustainable active transportation network that meets the broad outcomes of our community and our residents. The anticipated deliverables of this plan include: principles and objectives of the plan, establishment of a policy framework, service and design standards for new infrastructure (including pathways, sidewalks and road cross-sections) and improvements to legacy infrastructure, ten-year implementation and phasing plan and an investment plan (both annual operating and capital).