Integrated Transportation Plan

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Overview

We are updating our Integrated Transportation Plan to reflect current growth, policy, and mobility needs since it was last revised in 2018. The plan will also combine transportation, pathways, transit, and parking policy into a single guiding document.

The updated plan will incorporate current policy directions, reflect progress to date, and guide coordinated, sustainable, and efficient transportation and parking management through 2040.

Context

As more people come to Canmore to visit for a day or stay a lifetime, our roads are getting busier. That trend will only continue as our community grows. If we don’t think creatively about how we use the limited space we have, we’ll face a future of congestion, especially during peak season. 

Our network is limited by the highway, river, railway, and our narrow valley. Because cars can only carry a few people at a time, we need more efficient ways to move more people. When we make more room for walking, biking, and transit, we ease traffic for everyone, including people who need to drive. 

We developed the Integrated Transportation Plan to make sure our transportation network is safe and functional over the decades to come. It is a big-picture strategy that guides how we make transportation choices based on our community’s values, focused on moving people safely and efficiently, no matter how they choose to travel.

Here are some recent statistics made possible by implementing the plan so far:

  • Recent actions like lowering speed limits, adding traffic calming measures, offering free public transit, and building new separated pathways have helped reduce the share of summertime personal vehicle travel from 81% in 2022 to 75% in 2025.
  • We are already handling a remarkable number of trips by all modes of travel, including over 10.3 million car trips in 2025. If we lined up those cars end-to-end, it would stretch ~46,642 km — over one full lap of the planet!
  • We’ve created separated cycle and walking pathways in key areas along Bow Valley Trail and Spring Creek Drive, and they are being used year-round. Our community took an astounding total of 1,957,952 trips by foot or bike in 2025.
  • We are currently on-track to meet out 2030 mode share target of 40% trips taken by foot, bicycle or bus on a typical summer day. In 2025, the share was 25%, up from 19% in 2022.
  • Our streets are safer. Collisions dropped from 130 in 2022 to 88 in 2024.
  • Roam Public Transit local daily trips are on track to grow from 2,179 daily trips in 2025 to meet our goal of 2,488 daily trips 2026. Roam Public Transit is now the fourth largest transit service by ridership in Alberta!


Get Informed

Webinar

March 23, 2026 from noon-1 p.m. | Join us for an online webinar on where you will hear from our project team who will answer your questions following a presentation. The webinar is free but registration will be required. Check back soon for the registration link.

Can’t make it? We will post the recording on this webpage following the event.


Get Involved

Events

April 13, 2026, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. | Talk to our project teams and share your voice at a family-friendly community information night at Canmore Brewing Company. Drop in anytime.

Online survey

March 17-April 17, 2026 (not yet open) | Take our short online survey that will help us understand your current experiences, barriers, gaps, and opportunities to explore in our updated plan.

Interactive Map

March 17-April 17, 2026 (not yet open) | Add a pin to our interactive map to show us where there are issues, barriers, or opportunities in our existing transportation network.

We will share all upcoming opportunities to learn more about the project and share your perspective on this webpage. You can also subscribe for direct updates on this project by subscribing to the project newsletter on the right hand banner.


How We Will Use Your Input

This is the first phase of engagement for this project. We are seeking to identify current experiences, barriers, gaps, opportunities, and priorities within our current transportation network to ensure they are considered and addressed in the updated plan.

The updated plan will align with existing policy, plans, and bylaws, while incorporating innovative strategies to achieve updated mode shift targets.

We will consider and reflect input in the final plan that needs to be completed by late 2026 for council approval in Q1 2027.



Contact
To learn more, contact us at communications@canmore.ca

Overview

We are updating our Integrated Transportation Plan to reflect current growth, policy, and mobility needs since it was last revised in 2018. The plan will also combine transportation, pathways, transit, and parking policy into a single guiding document.

The updated plan will incorporate current policy directions, reflect progress to date, and guide coordinated, sustainable, and efficient transportation and parking management through 2040.

Context

As more people come to Canmore to visit for a day or stay a lifetime, our roads are getting busier. That trend will only continue as our community grows. If we don’t think creatively about how we use the limited space we have, we’ll face a future of congestion, especially during peak season. 

Our network is limited by the highway, river, railway, and our narrow valley. Because cars can only carry a few people at a time, we need more efficient ways to move more people. When we make more room for walking, biking, and transit, we ease traffic for everyone, including people who need to drive. 

We developed the Integrated Transportation Plan to make sure our transportation network is safe and functional over the decades to come. It is a big-picture strategy that guides how we make transportation choices based on our community’s values, focused on moving people safely and efficiently, no matter how they choose to travel.

Here are some recent statistics made possible by implementing the plan so far:

  • Recent actions like lowering speed limits, adding traffic calming measures, offering free public transit, and building new separated pathways have helped reduce the share of summertime personal vehicle travel from 81% in 2022 to 75% in 2025.
  • We are already handling a remarkable number of trips by all modes of travel, including over 10.3 million car trips in 2025. If we lined up those cars end-to-end, it would stretch ~46,642 km — over one full lap of the planet!
  • We’ve created separated cycle and walking pathways in key areas along Bow Valley Trail and Spring Creek Drive, and they are being used year-round. Our community took an astounding total of 1,957,952 trips by foot or bike in 2025.
  • We are currently on-track to meet out 2030 mode share target of 40% trips taken by foot, bicycle or bus on a typical summer day. In 2025, the share was 25%, up from 19% in 2022.
  • Our streets are safer. Collisions dropped from 130 in 2022 to 88 in 2024.
  • Roam Public Transit local daily trips are on track to grow from 2,179 daily trips in 2025 to meet our goal of 2,488 daily trips 2026. Roam Public Transit is now the fourth largest transit service by ridership in Alberta!


Get Informed

Webinar

March 23, 2026 from noon-1 p.m. | Join us for an online webinar on where you will hear from our project team who will answer your questions following a presentation. The webinar is free but registration will be required. Check back soon for the registration link.

Can’t make it? We will post the recording on this webpage following the event.


Get Involved

Events

April 13, 2026, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. | Talk to our project teams and share your voice at a family-friendly community information night at Canmore Brewing Company. Drop in anytime.

Online survey

March 17-April 17, 2026 (not yet open) | Take our short online survey that will help us understand your current experiences, barriers, gaps, and opportunities to explore in our updated plan.

Interactive Map

March 17-April 17, 2026 (not yet open) | Add a pin to our interactive map to show us where there are issues, barriers, or opportunities in our existing transportation network.

We will share all upcoming opportunities to learn more about the project and share your perspective on this webpage. You can also subscribe for direct updates on this project by subscribing to the project newsletter on the right hand banner.


How We Will Use Your Input

This is the first phase of engagement for this project. We are seeking to identify current experiences, barriers, gaps, opportunities, and priorities within our current transportation network to ensure they are considered and addressed in the updated plan.

The updated plan will align with existing policy, plans, and bylaws, while incorporating innovative strategies to achieve updated mode shift targets.

We will consider and reflect input in the final plan that needs to be completed by late 2026 for council approval in Q1 2027.



Contact
To learn more, contact us at communications@canmore.ca

Page published: 17 Feb 2026, 12:22 PM