Calgary is Alberta’s largest city and Canada’s third-largest municipality. It was the first jurisdiction in Canada to officially adopt a Complete Streets policy.
Calgary was included as a case study in TCAT’s Complete Streets Gap Analysis.
Calgary
City Council approved the City of Calgary Complete Streets Policy and Guide on November 3, 2014. The Guide builds on the 22 Complete Street Policies embedded into the 2009 Council-approved Calgary Transportation Plan.
The City of Calgary Complete Streets Policy and Guide was adopted by Calgary City Council in September 2009. This made Calgary the first jurisdiction in Canada to officially adopt a Complete Streets policy.
In April 2012, the The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT), a project of Clean Air Partnership, released the Complete Streets Gap Analysis: Opportunities and Barriers in Ontario. The report included case studies on three Canadian municipalities that have made progress towards adopting Complete Streets: Thunder Bay, Waterloo, and Calgary. These case studies highlight that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to achieving Complete Streets, rather a variety of different strategies may work depending on community context. This research was made possible with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.