Credit: ISL Engineering and Land Services
N a n ai m o’s raised intersectio n s
Nanaimo’s Complete Street Standards - Raised Local Rendering
Nanaimo goes Dutch
Adopting raised local intersections within the City’s engineering standards By Annalisa Fipke, City of Nanaimo and Roy Symons, ISL Engineering & Land Services
This project was the Canadian submission and international winner of the ITE 2021 Transportation Achievement Award (Complete Streets Category). Congratulations to the City of Nanaimo, ISL Engineering & Land Services, and project leads Annalisa Fipke and Roy Symons! Submissions for the 2022 CITE Awards are now open at cite7.org/awards.
The big picture Our relationship with transportation, particularly as
greenhouse gas emissions and improving local air
planners and engineers, has evolved in recent years as
quality, improving individual mental and physical
we better appreciate the impact that mode choice has
health, and reducing community healthcare costs.
on our lives, the built environment, and beyond. While
From an equity perspective, streets become safer for all
the automobile has undoubtedly brought convenience
modes, including those who continue to drive. When
to many, it has created health, livability, and equity
we enable people to make more trips safely by active
challenges for others, particularly where it has taken
modes, they become less reliant on the car, reducing
priority over accommodation for any other modes.
their transportation costs and financial stresses. The many benefits of shifting to more sustainable modes
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Enabling more people to make more trips using active
should require us to prioritize them in our urban design
modes helps reduce the negative impacts of our
guidance and engineering standards, but historically
transportation choices. For example, reducing
that has not been the case.
TRANSPORTATION TALK | WINTER 2021-22