The program was announced by Rob Fleming the Minster of Transportation on June 24th, with the Minister noting how the initiative supports the BC Government's Clean BC and Move, Commute, Connect programs.
The Cost sharing through the program will provide up to $50,000 for network planning and up to $500,000 towards infrastructure development.
The Deadline for BC's local governments to get their applications in is noon on July 30th.
In their overview, the province outlines what makes for acceptable concepts towards those bid applications.
More on the program can be reviewed here.
The sound of the starting gun for the application process should be of some interest for Prince Rupert City Council, in May they received a report from the city's contract planners at Iplan that highlighted funding available to communities for active transportation planning.
iPlan's Rob Buchan at the time said that the deadline for that program was May 21st.
City Council has not as of yet noted in public session or through their information streams if they moved forward with the application.
The new funding program announced last month, is separate from the May announcement and offers more opportunity to develop initiatives on the Active Planning theme.
One local group that will be awaiting word on both the May funding opportunity and this new one for July is the Complete Streets for Prince Rupert organization in the city which , which has long been looking for more active transportation themes to be adopted by Prince Rupert City Council.
You can review more of their thoughts on the topic from their website.
Some past themes on Active Transportation can be found from our Redesign Rupert/Sustainable City archive.
More notes on Prince Rupert City Council can be explored from our Council Discussion archive.
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