Goal: By 2030, 50 per cent of all trips within Whistler are by transit and active transport such as walking, biking, e-biking, e-scooters 

• Personal vehicles account over half of Whistler’s total greenhouse gas emissions. 

Key initiatives 

Public transit 

• Increase ridership by keeping fares affordable. 
• Enable shorter trip times with infrastructure improvements like dedicated transit merge (queue jumper), transit acceleration lanes and/or dedicated transit lanes. 
• Improve accessibility, inclusiveness and overall travel experience. 
• Improve transit stop infrastructure, adding more benches, shelters and accessible features. 
• Engage with province to increase regional transit between Whistler and neighbours. 

DID YOU KNOW? Switching a 10 km daily commute from a single passenger vehicle to transit can reduce your carbon emissions footprint by 0.7 metric tonnes. 

Active transport 

1. Prioritize active transport infrastructure by closing gaps in Valley Trail network. 
2. Scale up use of e-bikes and other e-mobility options. 

DID YOU KNOW? An e-bike produces roughly 1/6,000 the greenhouse gas emissions of a car. If you commute to work on an e-bike 200 days a year for 30 years, you’ll emit the same greenhouse gas as driving your car for just one day. 

Land use considerations

Whistler is incentivizing the development of compact neighbourhoods and transit nodes and ensuring new developments are connected to transit and active transport infrastructure like the Valley Trail.

Meeting the target: If successful and 50 per cent of all trips within Whistler are by transit and active transport by 2030, projected greenhouse gas reductions will be between 4,200 and 6,300 tonnes below 2019 levels (between 3 per cent and 5 per cent reduction).  

RMOW divisions and key partners

Lead: RMOW Transit and Transportation Demand Management 

Support: Environmental Stewardship, Planning, Infrastructure Services (Roads) 

Partnerships: Transportation Advisory Group (TAG), BC Government, Municipalities within the Sea to Sky Corridor, BC Transit, Translink 

Contact

climatechange@whistler.ca