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The City supports Metro Vancouver’s plans to ban food scraps from the incinerator and landfills by 2015. The City will collaborate with Metro Vancouver to develop and implement a plan to ensure apartments, condos, businesses and institutions have access to food scraps collection programs before the ban comes into effect.
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Absolutely! I live in an apartment, and it's very challenging to compost. I don't have a garden in which to keep a compost bin, or the dirt that is generated from composting. If there were a municipal food waste program for apartment/condo residents, I think it would make composting a much more realistic option, and significantly reduce waste.
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Provincial jurisdiction.
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I completely disagree.
I've had some close encounters with cars, and one of my friends had his life saved by a helmet. A car turned right without signalling/shoulder checking in front of him, and his head went through the back window.
I agree with Tamara that "Helmets are like Seat Belts". They're annoying, and they look dumb (and they might mess up your hair) but they can save your life. They're an easy precaution that cost almost nothing to implement and have a profound and dramatic effect on cyclist safety. -
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An ongoing process. Many of the City’s recent initiatives (e.g. downtown separated bike lane trial, additional traffic calming on existing routes) work towards this vision. The draft Greenest City action plan will support this idea, and include directions to help inform the upcoming transportation plan update and new active transportation plan.
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I'm an avid cyclist, but I refuse to use the routes like 10th or Ontario because of the traffic circles. Cars behave idiotically by turning left in front of the traffic circles (instead of going around them). Cars don't know how to behave and wind up behaving erractically and unpredictably, resulting in people getting hurt. They're lethal. Almost all of my friends have been hit by a car at a traffic circle - they're completely unsafe.
Personally, I find it much safer (and faster) to ride on major roads in shared bus/bike lanes. I love the wide bike shoulders on Cambie and Broadway.
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This is acknowledged as a key strategy to better integrate cycling and transit. In 07/2009 the City committed some funding for secure parking facilities at Broadway-City Hall and Olympic Village Canada Line stations. The City has also conducted a feasibility study for a downtown bike centre.
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394 votes
An exciting idea!
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TransLink is currently leading a study to determine the best approach to deliver high-capacity, fast, frequent, and reliable rapid transit for the Broadway Corridor from Commercial Drive to UBC. A number of technologies and alignment options are being considered, including rail rapid transit (e.g. SkyTrain), surface light rail transit, and bus rapid transit.
The City of Vancouver is directly involved as a partner agency in the study. In April 2010, City Council endorsed ten principles to guide City input into this process (http://vancouver/ubcline/principles).
Visit http://vancouver.ca/ubcline to learn more about this work, including upcoming public engagement events.
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Thanks for sharing this idea!
The city’s new 10-year cycling program master plan will soon be in development, and hopefully completed within the next year. A big part of the work ahead is to identify where separated bike lanes might be appropriate.
Lessons learned from the downtown trial will be an important input into the plan. The results so far support evidence elsewhere that separated bike lanes are a great way to make cycling more attractive on busy streets.
For more information, visit http://vancouver.ca/cycling .
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