Metro 2050 supports the coordination of land use and transportation to encourage sustainable transportation choices. Accessible and sustainable transportation choices are supported by strategies for a compact urban area, with transit-oriented development patterns that focus growth in Urban Centres (UCs), Major Transit Growth Corridors (MTGCs), and Frequent Transit Development Areas (FTDAs). This transit-oriented pattern of growth helps reduce vehicle use, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions from on-road sources, while fostering transit ridership and active transportation. It provides the region’s residents with resilient mobility options, a cleaner environment, and opportunities to reduce household transportation costs.
Contextual performance measure
Metro 2050 establishes the performance measure as the percent of residents within the Major Transit Growth Corridor.
Progress
This contextual measure identifies the percentage of Metro Vancouver residents within walking distance of the Major Transit Network. In 2021, 56% of Metro Vancouver residents lived in the region's priority growth areas (22% in UCs, 2% in FTDAs, and 32% in MTGCs ).