Wanted to give an update on pedestrian safety in the 2020 budget.

In HRM complete streets is the new standard and therefore the “old” pedestrian related account cost is now embedded in discrete and bundled transportation accounts. This is why the “old” accounts are decreasing.

Because of policy and accounting shifts since the approval of Integrated Mobility Plan & Toward Vision Zero there is no accurate way to show specific expenses. Pedestrian safety is not a separate project like in the past, now ALL projects have pedestrian safety baked into them.

Taking a very conservative approach to the 20/21 numbers and looking at the concerns advocates had presented, staff have estimated:

$3,685,000 for pedestrian related safety vs $1,750,000 in the stand alone budget line.

$7,445,000 for sidewalk and multi use pathway related expenditures vs $6,170,000 in the stand alone budget line.

It is very important to note that in addition to that:

- $3,270,000 for AAA bike network

- Any cost attribution for new/renewed AT/sidewalk for: Windsor street Exchange, Bayers and Robie Multi modal projects, or Cogswell
- any cost attribution for designs, land acquisition, utilities, or resources to implement
- any cost attribution from streetscape projects

I've been saying for years that every paving project on every road, path and sidewalk is a pedestrian safety project. They all need to meet those new standards!

Over all pedestrian investments have in fact increased a lot.