How can Clarington make it easier for you to cycle, walk, or roll to get around the community? Let’s create a safe, accessible, and well-connected active transportation network in Clarington.
What is active transportation?
Active transportation refers to any mode of travel that uses a person’s own power to move. This includes walking, cycling, using a wheelchair or mobility device, jogging, skateboarding, rollerblading, scootering and more. You may even think of a local unicyclist getting around Clarington on one wheel! New electric devices, such as e-bikes and e-scooters, often share active transportation infrastructure.
Active transportation facilities refer to built infrastructure that supports safe active transportation. This can include sidewalks, bike lanes, cycle tracks and multi-use paths.
Why a Master Plan?
Through our Active Transportation Master Plan, we aspire to:
Create a resilient and sustainable community
- Promote active transportation through public education
- Increase opportunities for recreation and exercise
- Support accessing local businesses by active transportation
- Support a variety of transportation and mobility options
Develop a safe and connected network
- Provide safe and protected active transportation facilities
- Establish connections between hamlets, rural areas, and urban centres
- Create convenient connections to key destinations
- Provide safe crossings of major physical barriers to creating a well-connected network
Create inclusive, accessible and vibrant communities
- Connect active transportation network with transit
- Create accessible active transportation facilities for people of all ages and abilities
- Monitor and maintain active transportation facilities
The Active Transportation Master Plan will leverage existing active transportation infrastructure in Clarington and guide the growth of our network going forward. We’re developing this plan through technical analysis, best practices, and community consultation, to create a community-focused plan that aims to make walking, cycling and rolling a safer and more reliable transportation option.
Quick Poll #1
Which of the following is the most important goal for making Clarington inclusive, accessible and vibrant?
This poll has concluded.
- Create opportunities to connect transit with active transportation. 35% (22 votes)
- Create accessible pedestrian facilities for people of all abilities. 49% (31 votes)
- Improve maintenance of active transportation facilities. 16% (10 votes)
Quick Poll #2
Which of the following do you think is the most important goal for the active transportation network?
This poll has concluded.
- Provide safe and protected active transportation facilities. 41% (18 votes)
- Create connections to rural areas and hamlets. 16% (7 votes)
- Create connections between urban areas. 5% (2 votes)
- Create a convenient network to access key destinations within urban areas. 18% (8 votes)
- Provide safe crossings of major barriers, such as highways, in the active transportation network. 20% (9 votes)
Quick Poll #3
Which of the following is the most important goal for improving active transportation in Clarington?
This poll has concluded.
- Promote active transportation through public education/awareness programs. 7% (18 votes)
- Create more opportunities to use active transportation for recreation and exercise. 54% (135 votes)
- Support a variety of transportation and mobility options. 20% (50 votes)
- Support access to local businesses through active transportation. 18% (45 votes)
How can Clarington make it easier for you to cycle, walk, or roll to get around the community?
14 April, 2024
Elle says:
Look at how Ajax connects foot trails through subdivisions - creating accessible paths while maintaining biodiversity.
14 April, 2024
Joanna says:
more large shared pathways for bikes and pedestrians
connect trails to lengthen walks and more easily move through town
14 April, 2024
Rebecca Auld says:
All street crossings in Courtice are unsafe. Cars just go even if person walking on cross walk. Need walk only periods.
11 April, 2024
Kim Maxwell says:
Connect the current paths with bike lanes and have the whole map available. Use the way stations to include maps of the available route
11 April, 2024
Scott Chapman says:
Create a good bike path not on roads that would basically circle the rim of bowmanville, with some offshoots to special areas like salmonrun
10 April, 2024
Karen C says:
Complete the Farewell Creek path that was started at Tooley mills. Extend that to Harmony.
8 April, 2024
Doug says:
Make a bike friendly route to West Bowmanville plazas (eg. SmartCentre) from central Bowmanville (eg. Scugog St.)
6 April, 2024
Walkbiketrail says:
Create a walking/biking trail from Enniskillen to Bowmanville
5 April, 2024
Dapper says:
More places to secure bikes in Newcastle
4 April, 2024
J says:
Create & maintain beautiful walking/biking paths. Send someone weekly (if not daily) to look & address path maintenance issues each season.
4 April, 2024
Chris D S says:
Longer trails to connect all the towns and hamlets of the area
4 April, 2024
Pam says:
Prevent snow clearing mounds from roads from blocking pedestrian walkways. Increase the number of "natural" corridors for pedestrians.
