In Victoria, less than half of daily trips were made by car. But car use is much higher in the West Shore and Saanich Peninsula.
Daily biking and walking trips continue to increase in Greater Victoria, the Capital Regional District’s latest every-five-years survey of travel patterns shows.
Ray Straatsma, who teaches a class on urban mobility at the University of Victoria, said that the results are not surprising, given that the city has been making investments in protected bike lanes and safer walking infrastructures. The survey, based on 8,581 household responses, found that motor-vehicle use in municipalities outside the core remains high, with four out of five trips made in cars.
“That is turning out to not be true,” he said, citing recent surveys and research that have found an increased preference for living in walkable urban neighbourhoods. According to the survey, transit share for daily trips have yet to recover from the pandemic. While transit share is higher in the core regions, the share falls off in the West Shore and Saanich Peninsula.
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