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Moving Towards Sustainable

Transportation: Case Study Pender

Islands

By Jake Skinner

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Field Work

Research questionshift is focus

Methods

Observations and journal entry

Face-time with communal organizers

Document and website analysis

Followup e-mails

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Challenges to External Transportation

It is an Island

Multiple options: air, ferry and small boat

Focus on BC Ferries

Southern Gulf

Islands Milk Run

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BC Ferries

Economic Instability

Private-Public Enterprise, since 2003

Fiscal 2012

Reasons: increased rates, decreased ridership,

labour

Environmental Degradation

Fuel to carbon to climate change

Enabler to Local Resilience

Convenience hurts local businesses

Reliance on services

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Challenges to Internal Transportation

Natural terrain

Infrastructure

Modes: car, taxi, bike, walking, Car-Stop

Overwhelmingly car

dependent

Economic issues Environmental

concern

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Limiters Effecting Cycling & Walking

Transportation Survey (2012)

Goal: Understand barriers to cycling and walking,

so that changes could be make to encourage

alternative transportation. Results: Residents used vehicles most and rarely

biked or walked. Resident willingness was high but

were limited by safety concerns. Lack of cycling

and biking infrastructure was the main obstacle toparticipation.

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Responses to External Challenges

BC Ferries

Greener Waters Ahead Brochure

Public consultation (Oct 29Dec 21 2012)

http://www.globaltvbc.com/public+consultations+b

egin+on+future+of+bc+ferries+as+cuts+and+fare+

hikes+loom/6442743210/story.html

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Responses to External Challenges

Southern Gulf Islands Economic Development

Commission

Lobby BC Ferries to increase rates, while

decreasing sailings to stimulate local economicself-sufficiency

Experience the Gulf Islands

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Responses to Internal Challenges

Pender Community Transition (PCT)

Moving Around Pender Alternative Transportation

Society (MAP)

Pender Islands Transportation Management Plan

Pender Islands' Transportation Survey

Promotion of Cycling Tourism: Experience the Gulf

Islands

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Salish Sea Trail

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Outside Examples: External

Small Ferries Project (Ireland, Northern Ireland &

Scotland)

Cross-border cooperation to address similar

transportation issues Dedication to support lifeline ferry service to

remote communities

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Small Ferries Project

Operationalization

Competition for local operator contracts

Boats

Grounded in small design

Diesel-electric hybrid

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Outside Examples: Internal

CRD Regional Pedestrian & Cycling Masterplan

(PCMP)

Goals: increase regional walking and cycling, make

walking and cycling safer and create more places towalk and cycle

Utilization of Gas Tax money

Salt Spring Island (SSI) is doing it. Inclusion April

2012.

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Cycling SSI

Velo Village July 2012

Showcase rural cycling

Islands Pathways

SSI's equivalent to MAP

Successes: inluding SSI in PCMP, organizing Velo

Village, constructing bike routes on SSI (Fulford-

Ganges-Vesuvius)

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Concluding Remarks

External Transportation:

Be bold: reduce ferry sizes

Involve locals in operation

Internal Transportation

Build upon strong relationships with the CRD and

Islands Trust to gain inclusion into PCMP

Keep communicating with other islands to build onsuccesses.

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Done! High Five! Questions?