Most people might associate Canmore with access to the Rockies… The hiking, the biking, and the climbing… But I love it for what they’re doing from an urban transportation perspective… The bike paths, the continuous sidewalks, and the much safer intersection designs… The choices this mountain town is making to build a more sustainable future provide lessons for others…

Three names that don’t always go together, but I had a quick trip to Calgary to present Lessons from the Dutch at the Southern Alberta ITE Luncheon, and as always, I took the opportunity to learn a little by checking out the infrastructure while there. I make a quick stop to see what’s new in Canmore, take in a few routes around Calgary, and a quick check-in on our Guildford Way project in Coquitlam…

In the first week of March I was in Edmonton to share some ‘Lessons from the Dutch’ with the audience at the Consulting Engineers of Alberta Transportation Connects Conference, but I found a bit of time to wander around the city and take some photos of people getting around in the cold, maybe not as cold as prior weeks, but still minus temperatures…

From red bike lanes, continuous sidewalks and nearside signals in Canmore, to pedestrian bridges and a new woonerf in Banff. These mountain towns are showing that a bit of snow and winter conditions is no excuse not to do good things with your streets…