Eric Doherty

Eric Doherty is a Victoria-based transportation planning consultant and president of Ecopath Planning. He completed a wide range of projects for non-profit, public, and private sector clients.

5 Articles

Green New Deal must include a transportation transformation

The role of government subsidies and direct investment in increasing climate pollution in the oil and gas sector has rightly gotten a lot of attention. But transportation, the second largest source of GHG pollution in Canada, must not be ignored.

Opinion

By Eric Doherty in Opinion | May 18th 2019

Climate emergency demands less traffic, more walkable cities

The climate emergency exploded onto the headlines in 2018, with a relentless series of disasters leading up to the UN COP 24 climate conference in December. But the people cutting climate pollution by creating delightful urban spaces on an unprecedented scale should be headline news in 2019.

Race Against Climate Change

By Eric Doherty in Features | March 25th 2019

Battery trolleybuses ready for heavy duty climate action

If we start treating the climate crisis as a true crisis, there will soon be a rapid growth of clean electric public transit options in communities around the world.

Opinion

By Eric Doherty in Opinion | December 19th 2018

B.C.’s climate plans need a push, from you

The B.C. government recently outlined some of their high-level ideas on climate action in a set of discussion papers.

Opinion

By Eric Doherty in Opinion, Energy, Politics | July 27th 2018

Montreal, traffic, bottlenecking, public transit, transportation

How a misleading report undermines Canada's climate framework

Decades of experience and studies show that the cliché, “you can’t build your way out of congestion,” is correct according to B.C. transit planner Eric Doherty.

Opinion

By Eric Doherty in Opinion, Energy | January 25th 2017