FAQ

The Transportation Master Plan will focus primarily on improvements to the transportation system within the City boundary. There maybe considerations made to advance transportation options across the region as appropriate.

Since the previous plan, they City has made improvements to the city transportation network including widening and reconstruction of Columbia Street West, extending Laurelwood Drive, and implementing various on-road bikeways, multi-use trails, shared streets, wayfinding and road crossing improvements. Simultaneously, the Region of Waterloo has widened Ira Needles Boulevard and University Avenue, completed streetscape improvements on King Street. The Region has also completed the ION - rapid transit link between Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. The LRT service launched in the spring of 2019, with eight transit stations located within the City of Waterloo.

The TMP will focus on the most effective ways to move people and goods within the City, following a complete streets approach. This will include looking at all forms of travel including walking, rolling and cycling.

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In the early stages your ideas and inputs have be used to shape the overall understanding of the current issues and opportunities facing transportation in the City as well as help to form a vision for the Transportation Master Plan that reflects the Waterloo community. In the current stages, your input will be used to inform potential refinements to the proposed policy directions and identify challenges, opportunities and considerations for the proposed policy directions prior to being included in the final Transportation Master Plan.