Official website of the
City of Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver's Transportation Plan

Conclusion

As individuals, as a community, or as a society, it is clear that we cannot live without access to transportation and the benefits we derive from the ability to move people and goods through the transportation system.

This Transportation Plan identifies the transportation issues facing Vancouver in the future and, most importantly, what we, the community, can do about it.

In this Transportation Plan we have identified the Transportation Vision; made recommendations for projects, programs, and initiatives that will incrementally implement the Vision over time; and presented a clear set of principles that should be used to develop and enact new funding mechanisms to advance this effort. The City alone cannot implement this Plan. What is needed is for the community and the existing coalitions within the community (The City, Neighborhoods and Citizens, Businesses, and Transportation Agencies) to work together and begin to identify those elements of the Plan that each of them help can move forward. And then to do just that - join together and move the Plan forward.

The first step is to secure a dedicated funding source and begin to implement this Plan - piece by piece, project by project. It will require a dedicated effort over many years and many decisions to move our Transportation Plan forward. When that occurs, the Transportation Vision and Plan will shape our City well into the future.