John Collin

The Thunder Bay Transportation Master Plan (TMP) serves as a strategic, long-range guide for transportation planning and investments, with a vision extending to 2038. It adopts a multimodal approach to enhance transportation infrastructure, policies, and programs for walking, cycling, transit, and driving. The plan aims to support a healthy, vibrant, and prosperous community by ensuring integrated, seamless mobility, and focuses on key areas such as implementing a Complete Streets Policy, developing a Road Safety Action Plan, optimizing the road and active transportation networks, and improving transit services.

This Financial Plan for the City of Thunder Bay Wastewater System updates a previous plan, aiming to ensure financial viability, full-cost recovery, and affordability for consumers over a projected twenty-year period. It focuses on maintaining existing service levels for sewage collection and treatment. Key strategies involve accumulating sufficient reserves for capital asset upgrades and addressing climate change impacts, alongside managing debt to meet capital renewal requirements and ensure long-term sustainability.

This background report for the City of Thunder Bay's Transportation Master Plan evaluates strategies for optimizing urban street functionality. It focuses on improving the vibrancy of core areas, accommodating cycling infrastructure, and enhancing pedestrian accessibility. The plan proposes public realm improvements in key downtown locations and the implementation of 'road diets' through lane reassignments to balance efficient transportation with placemaking and active mobility needs.

This Multi-Year Accessibility Plan outlines the City of Thunder Bay's strategy to identify, prevent, and remove accessibility barriers in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Key focus areas include removing attitudinal, informational, communication, systemic, physical, architectural, and technological barriers, integrating AODA requirements into corporate policies, fostering public engagement, upgrading facilities and infrastructure, providing mandatory accessibility training, ensuring accessible public engagement and materials, developing accessible procurement resources, enhancing transit accessibility, implementing sidewalk ramping, lift and level programs, and installing audible crossing signals. The plan aims to achieve a barrier-free city and ensure dignity, independence, integration, and equality of opportunity for all citizens.

The Transportation Master Plan for the City of Thunder Bay aims to offer integrated travel modes, prioritizing active transportation (walking, cycling) and public transit. Its strategic objectives include inspiring shifts in mobility, addressing climate change, fostering a healthier and greener community, and meeting the diverse needs of all community members, including youth, aging populations, and Indigenous groups, through innovative solutions.