Have your say on the Lougheed Transit Corridor Area Plan
The City of Maple Ridge is seeking feedback on the Lougheed Transit Corridor Plan.
How to Get Involved
Survey: https://engage.mapleridge.ca/LTCAP (open April 9-May 7)
Open houses:
- Wed. April 9, 2025, 5:00-7:00 at Glenwood Elementary, 21410 Glenwood Ave.
- Monday April 14, 5:30-7:30 at MR Library, Fraser Room
Project Background
The Lougheed Transit Corridor runs from the City’s western boundary to the Town Centre at 221 Street along Lougheed Highway and Dewdney Trunk Road. As a key gateway to Maple Ridge, it is a regionally significant Major Transit Growth Corridor with opportunities for housing, shopping, jobs, and amenities.
TransLink has designated it as part of the future Langley-Haney Place Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line, with stations planned at 203, 207, Laity, and 216 Streets. To guide development around these stations, the City has updated its concept plan and is seeking community feedback to shape the area's future growth (map updated with new boundaries below).
HUB Maple Ridge Local Committee Feedback
HUB Cycling’s Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Committee is a volunteer-led group that meets monthly to advocate for safer and improved active travel in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. The committee has provided background information and key recommendations to help guide you as you complete the survey. Learn more below and explore the committee’s four key recommendations:
- To highly prioritize separated sidewalks and uni-directional bike lanes as much as possible.
- That green paint be used in conflict zones at intersections, whether for bike lanes or multi-use paths.
- That the city explore opportunities to offer the best possible experience for active transportation users along the West Ridge Greenway, by implementing highly traffic calmed streets as well consider bike-permeable infrastructure in appropriate locations to reduce through car traffic and rat-running.
- Any multi-use paths or bi-directional bike lanes should feature continuous pathways* (elevated through intersection crossings at local streets, see image below) to ensure optimal safety and comfort of people cycling in both directions.
- Adequate secure bike parking at BRT stations, and accommodation of more than two bikes on buses.
The Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Local Committee notes that high quality cycling infrastructure within and around the Lougheed Transit Corridor is very important to provide safe and convenient cycling access to the future Bus Rapid Transit stations and to commercial- and other destinations along the Corridor including to the Town Centre.
TransLink has indicated that cycling infrastructure along Lougheed will not be part of the initial re-design of Lougheed to include designated transit lanes for the future Bus Rapid Transit. That likely means that we may not see cycling facilities on Lougheed completed for decades. So existing designated cycling routes and the future West Ridge Greenway (between Lougheed and Dewdney) will have to be of high quality to enable and encourage more people to cycle to their destinations along safe and convenient routes.
In 2019, Maple Ridge reversed a bylaw that allowed cycling on sidewalks in our municipality, in recognition of the fact that people walking and people cycling don't mix too well. That wasn't just the experience of Maple Ridge residents. Research has shown this to be the case as well. But since 2019, the city has strongly favoured the construction of multi-use pathways as the preferred type of cycling infrastructure wherever "improvements" are planned. A multi-use pathway is like a somewhat wider sidewalk, that is shared by people walking and cycling (usually in both directions), including e-bikes and e-scooters and other micromobility modes, which are becoming increasingly common on our streets.
The Lougheed Transit Corridor will see significant densification in the coming years, with apartment buildings popping up everywhere. It's important that all the new residents there will be encouraged to use active transportation for short and medium distance trips rather than to drive everywhere. But more multi-use paths along designated bike routes will obviously mean more conflict between people walking and cycling. We ask that you consider the implications for safety and livability for local residents and other people traveling on foot or by bike/e-bike/e-scooter through these urban neighbourhoods (see image below of Updated designs show multi-use paths all along the West Ridge Greenway for both residential and commercial areas).
Image: Map with updated new boundaries:
Image: Updated designs show multi-use paths all along the West Ridge Greenway for both residential and commercial areas
Image: Example continuous pathways crossing with local side street in Nanaimo
