Infrastructure improvements to keep our city moving.
My Values
After housing, transportation is the biggest cost for Canadian households. It is incredibly important for Kelowna's traffic and transportation engineering to be strategic, efficient, and effective. While the City of Kelowna does not have design control for traffic on Highway 97, we can be strong and vocal advocates for the Central Okanagan, and we can work to press for infrastructure investment that will keep people moving in our community.
Whether you’re walking your kids to school, taking the bus to run errands, biking downtown for a dinner on Bernard, or driving a truck for work, everyone deserves to move through Kelowna safely and efficiently. Responsibly managing our growth means we need to make our infrastructure safer and more convenient.
Whether you’re walking your kids to school, taking the bus to run errands, biking downtown for a dinner on Bernard, or driving a truck for work, everyone deserves to move through Kelowna safely and efficiently. Responsibly managing our growth means we need to make our infrastructure safer and more convenient.
Commuting by Car
- Fix the Top 20 crash zones first. ICBC has statistics that identify the 20 most accident-prone locations, yet few improvements have been made, including by lobbying the Province to fix dangerous intersections along 97. We should make our roads more safe and efficient.
- Highway 97: Advocate for Provincial infrastructure upgrades to reduce congestion & car crashes by shifting curb cuts to side streets, closing off access points, and removing non-signal lefts.
- Bus pullouts installed on all frequent transit routes when roads are repaved.
- Refocus capital investment into complete streets and efficient intersections depending on the local context. Roundabouts, sidewalks and street trees should be priorities.
- Create a single, real-time public map of all road construction so that the public can spot issues and projects can be better coordinated to minimize detours and combine work when possible.
- Expand "Green Wave" traffic signal synchronization and timing citywide by redirecting capital investment into smart traffic sensor and adaptive signal technology.
Transit, Walking, and Rolling
- Fill in the gaps in our sidewalk and bike networks. Relying on developers to build sidewalks and bike lanes in front of new developments hasn’t built a connected network that makes walking and cycling safe for everyone. Kelowna should engage the public to determine gaps in its sidewalk and bike networks near the most important destinations (such as schools) and fill in these locations first.
- Rapid Transit corridor planning between downtown Kelowna and the University and Airport, along with between the north end and south mission.
- Prioritize transit signal priority technology in the 10-year capital plan for full coverage on all "frequent" routes at all intersections by 2032.
- Increased investment in street urbanisation and traffic calming approaches such as street trees, continuous sidewalks, signalized crossings, and other infrastructure in order to improve both accessibility and safety for all road users, including those with walkers and wheelchairs.
- Improve "Meet Me On Bernard" urbanism with retractable bollards to replace concrete barriers and improved car-lite design standards that improve urban tree canopy and dining options.
- Support increased rollout of sidewalk, multi-use path, and bike path corridors in order to advance multi-model traffic safety. Establish a "safe routes to school" program for all schools to be covered by 2034. Target completion of 2040 TMP ATC projects by 2033.
- Implement the TMP2040 plan for Leon and Lawrence, as commercial "high streets" more similar to Bernard and Pandosy.
- Investment in the new public transit yard, with completed pushed up to 2032 or as soon as practical.
- Advocacy for a Central Okanagan Transit Authority (Translink) as opposed to 3rd-party contracting as a management model.
- Create a funding strategy for bus shelters at all stops on all routes within the permanent growth boundary, to be completed by 2032.
