GC 2020
12 results found
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elevated covered bike lanes
BISU: bike super hwy! elevated, covered bike routes that connect all municipalities and are 4-lanes wide and lit up at night. designed by architects from europe, or frank gehry. will set the standard for the car-less phase of human evolution... sponsored by companies that create contemporary self-powered vehicles suitable for the Bicycle Super Highway.
31 votesAn interesting concept, but extremely expensive, challenging to integrate into neighbourhoods and difficult to ensure flexibility to serve as broad a range of users as possible.
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Use alley ways as bike trails/lanes
Cyclists often fear vehicle traffic. Why not utilize wide uncluttered alley ways as bike lanes or routes for cyclists to travel on. The minimal vehicle traffic in alley ways is already slow moving. If a few of these bike trails are established in a few city wide corridors it could drastically increase downtown cycling. Instead of taking up more road way, just use the unused alley ways!
28 votesThe Greenest City team does support the idea to make make laneways and alleys more pedestrian (and bike) friendly environments, while maintaining essential functions (e.g. access for loading, parking and waste collection). Having said that, laneways aren’t ideal as designated bike routes for a number of reasons; perhaps most significantly, they don’t allow for safe (signalled or otherwise) crossings from one block to the next.
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Green Light District #1
Create green light district, a place where you can go and, for a small fee, rent a vehicle, and drive it knowing that you safely do it without stopping or fear of being ostracized. I would suggest a re-purposed marine drive or great northern way. The go-zone would help frustrated drivers satisfy driver freedom urges, and in the process, unwind the tension on our roads, and ultimately, make cycling safer too.
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Covered cycling routes
The need for an efficient and safe network of cycling routes is a given, but what about the rain? The problem is how to get people out of their cars and on to their bikes/electric scooters during the long and wet winter months. I would propose running a covered cycling route along every tenth street. A tastefully designed rain canopy could be built wide enough to shelter two lanes of bike traffic. (Half of the street could be left uncovered, and restricted to local cars.) It seldom rains hard enough here to discourage a cyclist on a three-minute jaunt, but…
15 votesThis would be extremely costly to implement. Yes, cycling traffic does go down on rainy days but many people have demonstrated a willingness to ride in inclement weather. Cyclists in European cities continue to cycle in all types of weather. It just requires a change of mindset.
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Vancouver Horse Network
Let's reintegrate horses into our transportation plan! Imagine it - stables on each block, dedicated horse lanes, manure turned into valuable compost, natural exercise and healthy thigh muscles, job creation, reduced car use, animal therapy... there would be so many advantages! Bring back the horses, I say!!
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Mandatory Bike License
If cyclists and motorists are to share the road safely, ALL users of the road should be licensed and have to pass a safety exam. Exams for new drivers should include a section on sharing the road. Cyclist too would be required to be knowledgeable. The license would ensure that both drivers and cyclists are safe and accountable for their driving/riding habits.
19 votesThe city will continue to advocate for and work with partners to deliver commuter cyclist education as part of the standard school curriculum.
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3 votes
This action will not help us reach our greenest city targets.
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Lower Parking Fees & Higher Transit Fees
You tell me and less Municipal Workers
1 voteThis idea will not help us reach our 2020 Target to make the majority of trips by foot, bicycle or transit.
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Elimination Of All Bike Lanes In Vancouver
This catagory is wrong, it should be travel by Automobile,Foot or Transit only which pays most of the taxes, When Bikers start paying annual bicycle license fees, access fees and tolls to use Bridges then it can be add to this Catagory
6 votesThis idea will not get us to our 2020 target to make the majority of trips by foot, bicycle and public transit.
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turn down town core into a pedestrian and cycle only zone!
I think we should do what many european towns have which is a down town where there is limited or no car access at all. The roads could then be paved with interlocking stone and other elements such as street cafes could be added and then pedestrians can enjoy the new space. No cars and trucks would also mean cleaner air and no need to worry about conflicts between pedestrians, cyclist, and motorist.
9 votesMaking the entire downtown core pedestrian and cycle only is interesting but impractical. That said, there is room to explore opportunities for car-free and/or pedestrian priority areas within the core.
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Up To Day Gone Tomorrow Burrard Street Bridge
After the 2011Election all Permanet Bike Lanes to be removed from City of Vancouver, in the meantime tolls must be set up, access fees paid and Annual Bike license of $200.00. Even the Dogs pay more in the City of Vancouver
1 voteThe trial is intended to improve safety and help make cycling more appealing for all ages and abilities. To date it has been a huge success: significantly more cyclists are using the bridge — a 24% increase in general, even higher for women and children — and accident rates are down. The number of pedestrians and cars crossing the bridge have not changed appreciably, and transit operations are unaffected.
On July 7th 2010, the trial celebrated its one millionth cyclist, less than a year after the trial began. The following day, Council approved funding for the design of bridge rehabilitation work and permanent separated cycling paths.
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ca/burrard.
On July 8, 2010 Council approved funding for the design of bridge rehabilitation work on Burrard Street Bridge that will include a permanent separated cycling path.
Read the council report here:
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Shift transit from buses to light rail / streetcars
Let's face it, buses aren't sexy. You don't see too many suits riding the bus in Vancouver. Based on what I've seen in other (world-class) cities, trolleys / streetcars / light rail are more appealing to a broader cross-section of the population. If we want to get people out of cars, provide a nice alternative.
38 votesStreetcars and other forms of light rail have their place in the city — see http://vancouver.ca/streetcar for an example — but it is not practical to replace all buses with streetcars for a variety of reasons. In some cases, the flexibility buses offer (e.g. ability to pass, change lanes) outweigh the advantages of streetcars. The cost of upgrading (particulary if there is no commensurate increase in capacity and level of service) must also be considered, and weighed against other transit needs in the region.
