Brampton, like many other municipalities, has a variety of challenges that it will need to address in the coming years related to establishing active transportation as a viable way to get around. These include:

• Safety and security - riding in traffic, unsafe pedestrian road crossings, missing or unmaintained sidewalks, and/or unmaintained roads and bike lanes.
• Existing land use patterns - low-density, single-use, auto-dependent development makes walking and cycling between destinations time consuming and unrealistic.
• Cold climates and physical barriers - Cold, wet, or snowy winters along with highway and river crossings make walking and cycling uncomfortable and inconvenient.

The following provides an overview of some of the key benefits of expanding and supporting active transportation in the City:

• Public health and safety - healthier form of transportation, well-designed networks and purpose-built infrastructure can also greatly improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.
• Environment and sustainability - generates far less air pollution emissions and is far less carbon intensive than other forms of transportation.
• Economic and financial – construction and maintenance costs are far lower than other transportation infrastructure, have positive local economic development impacts.
• Community and quality of life - positive impacts on overall community and individual well-being, social cohesion and community identity.
• Transportation and connections: improves connections to, and between, community destinations, which improves the broader transportation network, transit trips begin and end with walking, therefore there are public transit ridership benefits.