Part of a street is closed to provide a local space for kids to play.

Panorama Hills

Finding nearby gathering places can help correct the decline in youth activity levels. 

YYC Plays Strategy

An experiment to see if a street can be better designed for more users. In this case, the street was narrowed to make it more comfortable for pedestrians travelling on the pathway. 

Panorama Hills

Panorama Hills has a rich pathway network that feels disconnected by larger roadway crossings. 

Pathways are all considered 5A facilities. 

Narrowing streets is the best way to slow vehicles. Narrowing streets at intersections also helps pedestrians be more visible.

Rosehill Drive NW

Temporary calming curbs are being tested before permanent intersection improvements are built in 2022.

Complete Streets Policy

We are currently looking at ways to better integrate wildlife in our city.

Future

Biodiversity and environmental resiliency

BiodiverCity

Hosting or enabling community partners to host events connects neighbours and slows cars. 

Panorama Hills 

Connecting neighbours helps build more resilient communities where residents look out for one another.

Social Wellbeing Policy

Parking lets people spend time at a place. Benches, bike racks and street parking and designated scooter stalls are all facilities that contribute to letting people gather.

In Silver Springs, additional parking was added near Bowmont Park by converting parallel stalls to angled stalls.

These additional stalls will help give access to the park and the new design means the street is narrowed and park users no longer have to cross the street to reach the park.

Calgary Parking Policies

Local students participated in a walk audit to evaluate the street. 

Rosehill Drive NW

Asking students to evaluate a street helps their voices be heard and gives the project team important feedback on what is working and what could be improved upon. 

Social Wellbeing Policy

Adding a small pathway link to complete a connection through a school yard and community association hall

Crescent Heights High School 

The presence of small missing links is common at schools

Identified in the North Hill Communities Local Area Plan

Narrowing streets is the best way to slow vehicles. Narrowing streets at intersections also helps pedestrians be more visible. 

Rosehill Drive NW

Temporary curb bulbs are being tested before permanent intersection improvements are built in 2022.

Temporary diverters help manage vehicle volumes and encourage walking and wheeling on neighbourhood streets 

1 Street NE and 2 Street NW

Public engagement from the Green Line project identified the need to limit vehicle trips on these streets parallel to Centre Street N

2 Street NW is a marked and signed bike route and both routes form part of Calgary's 5A network

The new policy looks for opportunities to share decisions with communities. 

Silver Springs

Communities members have a good sense of their character and the locations that feel unsafe. Finding opportunities to engage can help correct the locations that matter most. 

Social Wellbeing Policy

Students were guided by a local artist in a mural project

Silver Springs Boulevard at St Sylvester School

The mural helped the students celebrate and learn about change in their community. 

Public art program

Speed humps are one of the best tools to slow vehicles in problem locations. 

10 Street NW, 47 Avenue SW and 22 Street SW

Residents at these two locations were mostly concerned with speeds, speed humps can address this single problem.

These two locations see out of community traffic and are also on Calgary's 5A network.

Signs to show loops or destinations in a community. 

Panorama Hills 

While most streets have road signs, pathways typically do not, though users still benefit from destination information.

Corporate Accessibility Policy

Beautiful planters along Silver Springs Boulevard.

Silver Springs Boulevard NW 

Gardening is an important and shared passion for Silver Springs residents. 

Silver Springs residents have created a botanical garden and work together to make their community green.

Adding wheelchair ramps helps make intersections safe for everyone. 

Silver Springs

Corporate Accessibility Policy

Protected wheeling lanes to narrow the street and make crossings easier for pedestrians.

Silver Springs Boulevard NW - a main connector in the community of Silver Springs.

Speeding on Silver Springs Boulevard was the most common complaint from residents. Using temporary materials was a cost-effective test.

This is an experiment in that it is a new design. Designing for a protected wheeling space is recommended by our 5A network map.

An intersection was closed to vehicles to create a new park space. 

Balmoral Circus (19 Avenue and 2 Street NW)

This historic park was seldom used and cut in quarters by streets. Closing the streets meant an historic, community space could be enhanced. 

2 Street NW is a marked and signed bike route and part of Calgary's 5A network.

Adding traffic calming in Silver Springs was a priority to align with street paving work. 

Silver Springs

Design standards change over time. Building traffic calming at the same time as regular road maintenance is efficient.

Council Priority - A Well Run City

Rubber sidewalks are being tested in Silver Springs at locations where tree roots are causing major sidewalk heaving. 

Silver Springs Boulevard NW

New materials are tested to solve certain unique problems. If successful, they are proven to help more communities.

Corporate Accessibility Policy