2022 Walking Infrastructure Program

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As part of the City of Abbotsford's Multi-Year Active Transportation Plan, the Walking Infrastructure Program seeks to improve pedestrian safety and neighbourhood connectivity. Currently, the City is completing the design of sidewalks and crosswalks at 11 locations across the City.

The City awarded the construction contract to McDonald & Ross Const. Ltd, and construction is scheduled to start late October 2022/early Nov 2022.

Due to budget constraints, only the sites identified in the PDF will advance to construction. Construction of the other sites will be deferred until future years.

View the locations of the sidewalk and crosswalk projects advancing to construction.


As part of the City of Abbotsford's Multi-Year Active Transportation Plan, the Walking Infrastructure Program seeks to improve pedestrian safety and neighbourhood connectivity. Currently, the City is completing the design of sidewalks and crosswalks at 11 locations across the City.

The City awarded the construction contract to McDonald & Ross Const. Ltd, and construction is scheduled to start late October 2022/early Nov 2022.

Due to budget constraints, only the sites identified in the PDF will advance to construction. Construction of the other sites will be deferred until future years.

View the locations of the sidewalk and crosswalk projects advancing to construction.


Consultation has concluded

Have a question about the 2022 Walking Infrastructure Program?  Ask it here, and our team will respond!  Public consultation is open until April 14, 2022. 

  • Share Thank you for the opportunity to review plans and provide comments. To reduce the risk of vehicle pedestrian collisions, has the city considered reducing the speed limit to 40km/h from 50km/h for all municipal roadways? on Facebook Share Thank you for the opportunity to review plans and provide comments. To reduce the risk of vehicle pedestrian collisions, has the city considered reducing the speed limit to 40km/h from 50km/h for all municipal roadways? on Twitter Share Thank you for the opportunity to review plans and provide comments. To reduce the risk of vehicle pedestrian collisions, has the city considered reducing the speed limit to 40km/h from 50km/h for all municipal roadways? on Linkedin Email Thank you for the opportunity to review plans and provide comments. To reduce the risk of vehicle pedestrian collisions, has the city considered reducing the speed limit to 40km/h from 50km/h for all municipal roadways? link

    Thank you for the opportunity to review plans and provide comments. To reduce the risk of vehicle pedestrian collisions, has the city considered reducing the speed limit to 40km/h from 50km/h for all municipal roadways?

    binobidder asked over 2 years ago

    Thank you for your question.

    Reducing the speed limit on all municipal roads alone is not considered as an effective engineering measure to enhance road safety. Municipal roads are designed based on specific speed limit. 

    In order to enhance road safety, the City reviews other safety mechanisms (for example, installing RRFB crosswalk at strategic location.)

    Otherwise, speed limit reduction would be implemented where warranted, and would be assessed on a case by case basis. .

  • Share While more safe crosswalks are necessary. Why are we primarily seeing walking infrastructure that is related to crossing streets? I think only 1 of the items in this list/ budget for 2022 was walking infrastructure on its own (the sidewalks on Vineland.) Every street needs to have at least one sidewalk where pedestrians can walk safely. Lets start by listing all the streets that are missing this infrastructure, and treat it like a project to get to the end of the work. (e.g. 50 streets lack a sidewalk, we will tackle 10 of these streets per year to reach the goal of "every street has a sidewalk" in 5 years time. I don't see the "goal"... so this looks a little bit "ad-hoc". I also don't think the city has taken its existing streets seriously. There are 100s? of places in the city where pedestrians are forced to turn or step down or walk around power poles... Its clear that this kind of obstruction would never be acceptable for the lanes on a road that carry vehicles. Just the other day I watched a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get up the ramps at Ware and South Fraser as she attempted to cross the street. We though she was going to fall over and my son and I almost leapt out of our car to offer assistance... (because the pedestrian infrastructure is so poor.) Lets see an accurate audit of the state of our existing sidewalks. Lets be brave and call deficiencies deficiencies. Lets design for Vision Zero (Zero traffic deaths). We have a lot of "status quo" maintenance going on without re-thinking... For instance, why must a pedestrian always step down and step up to cross the road. A Level sidewalk crossing is an alternate approach which would require cars to slow as they rise and fall in crossing the Pedestrian space. (clearly not for high speed roads). on Facebook Share While more safe crosswalks are necessary. Why are we primarily seeing walking infrastructure that is related to crossing streets? I think only 1 of the items in this list/ budget for 2022 was walking infrastructure on its own (the sidewalks on Vineland.) Every street needs to have at least one sidewalk where pedestrians can walk safely. Lets start by listing all the streets that are missing this infrastructure, and treat it like a project to get to the end of the work. (e.g. 50 streets lack a sidewalk, we will tackle 10 of these streets per year to reach the goal of "every street has a sidewalk" in 5 years time. I don't see the "goal"... so this looks a little bit "ad-hoc". I also don't think the city has taken its existing streets seriously. There are 100s? of places in the city where pedestrians are forced to turn or step down or walk around power poles... Its clear that this kind of obstruction would never be acceptable for the lanes on a road that carry vehicles. Just the other day I watched a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get up the ramps at Ware and South Fraser as she attempted to cross the street. We though she was going to fall over and my son and I almost leapt out of our car to offer assistance... (because the pedestrian infrastructure is so poor.) Lets see an accurate audit of the state of our existing sidewalks. Lets be brave and call deficiencies deficiencies. Lets design for Vision Zero (Zero traffic deaths). We have a lot of "status quo" maintenance going on without re-thinking... For instance, why must a pedestrian always step down and step up to cross the road. A Level sidewalk crossing is an alternate approach which would require cars to slow as they rise and fall in crossing the Pedestrian space. (clearly not for high speed roads). on Twitter Share While more safe crosswalks are necessary. Why are we primarily seeing walking infrastructure that is related to crossing streets? I think only 1 of the items in this list/ budget for 2022 was walking infrastructure on its own (the sidewalks on Vineland.) Every street needs to have at least one sidewalk where pedestrians can walk safely. Lets start by listing all the streets that are missing this infrastructure, and treat it like a project to get to the end of the work. (e.g. 50 streets lack a sidewalk, we will tackle 10 of these streets per year to reach the goal of "every street has a sidewalk" in 5 years time. I don't see the "goal"... so this looks a little bit "ad-hoc". I also don't think the city has taken its existing streets seriously. There are 100s? of places in the city where pedestrians are forced to turn or step down or walk around power poles... Its clear that this kind of obstruction would never be acceptable for the lanes on a road that carry vehicles. Just the other day I watched a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get up the ramps at Ware and South Fraser as she attempted to cross the street. We though she was going to fall over and my son and I almost leapt out of our car to offer assistance... (because the pedestrian infrastructure is so poor.) Lets see an accurate audit of the state of our existing sidewalks. Lets be brave and call deficiencies deficiencies. Lets design for Vision Zero (Zero traffic deaths). We have a lot of "status quo" maintenance going on without re-thinking... For instance, why must a pedestrian always step down and step up to cross the road. A Level sidewalk crossing is an alternate approach which would require cars to slow as they rise and fall in crossing the Pedestrian space. (clearly not for high speed roads). on Linkedin Email While more safe crosswalks are necessary. Why are we primarily seeing walking infrastructure that is related to crossing streets? I think only 1 of the items in this list/ budget for 2022 was walking infrastructure on its own (the sidewalks on Vineland.) Every street needs to have at least one sidewalk where pedestrians can walk safely. Lets start by listing all the streets that are missing this infrastructure, and treat it like a project to get to the end of the work. (e.g. 50 streets lack a sidewalk, we will tackle 10 of these streets per year to reach the goal of "every street has a sidewalk" in 5 years time. I don't see the "goal"... so this looks a little bit "ad-hoc". I also don't think the city has taken its existing streets seriously. There are 100s? of places in the city where pedestrians are forced to turn or step down or walk around power poles... Its clear that this kind of obstruction would never be acceptable for the lanes on a road that carry vehicles. Just the other day I watched a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get up the ramps at Ware and South Fraser as she attempted to cross the street. We though she was going to fall over and my son and I almost leapt out of our car to offer assistance... (because the pedestrian infrastructure is so poor.) Lets see an accurate audit of the state of our existing sidewalks. Lets be brave and call deficiencies deficiencies. Lets design for Vision Zero (Zero traffic deaths). We have a lot of "status quo" maintenance going on without re-thinking... For instance, why must a pedestrian always step down and step up to cross the road. A Level sidewalk crossing is an alternate approach which would require cars to slow as they rise and fall in crossing the Pedestrian space. (clearly not for high speed roads). link

    While more safe crosswalks are necessary. Why are we primarily seeing walking infrastructure that is related to crossing streets? I think only 1 of the items in this list/ budget for 2022 was walking infrastructure on its own (the sidewalks on Vineland.) Every street needs to have at least one sidewalk where pedestrians can walk safely. Lets start by listing all the streets that are missing this infrastructure, and treat it like a project to get to the end of the work. (e.g. 50 streets lack a sidewalk, we will tackle 10 of these streets per year to reach the goal of "every street has a sidewalk" in 5 years time. I don't see the "goal"... so this looks a little bit "ad-hoc". I also don't think the city has taken its existing streets seriously. There are 100s? of places in the city where pedestrians are forced to turn or step down or walk around power poles... Its clear that this kind of obstruction would never be acceptable for the lanes on a road that carry vehicles. Just the other day I watched a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get up the ramps at Ware and South Fraser as she attempted to cross the street. We though she was going to fall over and my son and I almost leapt out of our car to offer assistance... (because the pedestrian infrastructure is so poor.) Lets see an accurate audit of the state of our existing sidewalks. Lets be brave and call deficiencies deficiencies. Lets design for Vision Zero (Zero traffic deaths). We have a lot of "status quo" maintenance going on without re-thinking... For instance, why must a pedestrian always step down and step up to cross the road. A Level sidewalk crossing is an alternate approach which would require cars to slow as they rise and fall in crossing the Pedestrian space. (clearly not for high speed roads).

    Gmckone asked over 2 years ago

    The City recognized that walking to a destination often requires using both sidewalks and crosswalks. Therefore to make the entire trip as safe as possible, crosswalks are added where required in conjunction with sidewalk installation.

    In Urban area, sidewalk is required on one side of the road and the City is working toward this goal. Sidewalks are being built by development activities and through City's capital projects. 

    The City also realizes that there are areas where utility poles impede pedestrian movement on sidewalk. This is being addressed as an ongoing effort. 

    In regards to your comment of avoiding to step down from the sidewalk and walk across the road, this practice is being adopted in local road where traffic calming is warranted.

  • Share I would like to see more accommodation for bikers who ride trikes. I have found that I cannot traverse many areas of the city because of barricades, initially I believe to stop motor vehicles from access, but they do not allow a trike to pass through as the rail barricades are too close together to be able to turn and zig-zag through these rails. on Facebook Share I would like to see more accommodation for bikers who ride trikes. I have found that I cannot traverse many areas of the city because of barricades, initially I believe to stop motor vehicles from access, but they do not allow a trike to pass through as the rail barricades are too close together to be able to turn and zig-zag through these rails. on Twitter Share I would like to see more accommodation for bikers who ride trikes. I have found that I cannot traverse many areas of the city because of barricades, initially I believe to stop motor vehicles from access, but they do not allow a trike to pass through as the rail barricades are too close together to be able to turn and zig-zag through these rails. on Linkedin Email I would like to see more accommodation for bikers who ride trikes. I have found that I cannot traverse many areas of the city because of barricades, initially I believe to stop motor vehicles from access, but they do not allow a trike to pass through as the rail barricades are too close together to be able to turn and zig-zag through these rails. link

    I would like to see more accommodation for bikers who ride trikes. I have found that I cannot traverse many areas of the city because of barricades, initially I believe to stop motor vehicles from access, but they do not allow a trike to pass through as the rail barricades are too close together to be able to turn and zig-zag through these rails.

    Joe asked over 2 years ago

    Thank you for your feedback. The City is working to address this by removing the baffles on walkways when conducting other improvements in the area. The baffles are replaced by one or two metal bollards (depending on the width of the pathway). Baffles will be used when the grade of the pathway exceeds 8%

  • Share You did run out of money a couple of years ago to put a side walk in one McNab Ave There are way more people with young children in and they need a side walk.Nobody keeps to the 30km speed limit to get to Mc Bride to beat the line up on Mc Millen to beat the stop sign Please reconsider.Thank You Bastiaa n and Margaret van Elswyk on Facebook Share You did run out of money a couple of years ago to put a side walk in one McNab Ave There are way more people with young children in and they need a side walk.Nobody keeps to the 30km speed limit to get to Mc Bride to beat the line up on Mc Millen to beat the stop sign Please reconsider.Thank You Bastiaa n and Margaret van Elswyk on Twitter Share You did run out of money a couple of years ago to put a side walk in one McNab Ave There are way more people with young children in and they need a side walk.Nobody keeps to the 30km speed limit to get to Mc Bride to beat the line up on Mc Millen to beat the stop sign Please reconsider.Thank You Bastiaa n and Margaret van Elswyk on Linkedin Email You did run out of money a couple of years ago to put a side walk in one McNab Ave There are way more people with young children in and they need a side walk.Nobody keeps to the 30km speed limit to get to Mc Bride to beat the line up on Mc Millen to beat the stop sign Please reconsider.Thank You Bastiaa n and Margaret van Elswyk link

    You did run out of money a couple of years ago to put a side walk in one McNab Ave There are way more people with young children in and they need a side walk.Nobody keeps to the 30km speed limit to get to Mc Bride to beat the line up on Mc Millen to beat the stop sign Please reconsider.Thank You Bastiaa n and Margaret van Elswyk

    elswyk asked over 2 years ago

    Thank you for your feedback. McNab Avenue is on the City's future sidewalk program.