Transportation
Overall, traffic congestion and transportation infrastructure were the number two and number four rated issues facing Kelowna.
- 71.9% of respondents rated overall traffic congestion in Kelowna as high or very high.
- Almost 9 out of ten rated congestion on Highway 97 as high or very high.
- Only 2 out of ten respondents rated traffic congestion in their neighbourhoods as high or very high.
- 71.1% of respondents gave adding vehicle lanes on congested arterial routes a high or very high priority as a strategy to mitigate traffic congestion.
Priorities for mitigating vehicle congestion
Public Transit
Public transit was ranked in the middle in terms of importance of factors in making a community a good place to live and work. However, it was ranked near the bottom in terms of resident’s satisfaction.
Currently, only 3.1% of respondents use public transit as their primary mode of transportation and nine out of ten people rarely or never use transit. However, almost half of respondents said that improving transit system routes and frequencies would be effective in encouraging them to use their own vehicle less frequently.
Just under half (43.2%) of households in Kelowna are two vehicle households. Three in ten households (31.0%) are single vehicle households. Only 3.7% of households had no vehicles.
Vehicles in Households
Dealing with Congestion
Which of the following programs/services would be effectve in encouraging you to use your own vehicle less frequently?
