Transportation Committee

WHEREAS one of the objectives of the City’s Municipal Parking Management Strategy (MPMS) is to “promote, establish, and maintain programs and facilities that encourage the use of alternative modes of transportation including… cycling”; and WHEREAS the MPMS directs that all parking revenues generated are sufficient to cover all related operating and life cycle maintenance expenditures and contributions to the Parking Reserve Fund (PRF) for capital projects; and WHEREAS ring and post bicycle parking funded through the PRF has only been installed within paid parking areas in accordance with MPMS objective of financial self-sustainability; and WHEREAS the installation of sufficient, high quality bicycle parking at OC Transpo bus stops throughout the City, both within and outside of paid parking areas, will encourage transit ridership and cycling by facilitating multi-modal trips; and WHEREAS staff believes that ring and post bicycle parking could be installed at 50 OC Transpo bus stops in 2018 within existing budgets and without having a negative impact on the annual program on the understanding that any additional funds that may be required would be provided from the Parking Reserve Fund, to an upset limit of $30,000; and WHEREAS, if approved, staff will prioritize the locations for the installation based on input from transit ridership statistics, staff observations, customer feedback and input through an on-line survey for cyclists to be conducted early in 2018; and WHEREAS th