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Provincial jurisdiction.
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Those individuals who make comments about the medical care costs associated with not wearing a helmet, please note: Cycling has a health benefit/risk ratio of at least 9:1. There is a strong, positive improvement to individual and public health from cycling. Therefore, it is much healthier to ride without a helmet, then to not ride at all. The danger is NOT cycling.
I would also like to add that motoring is dangerous and severely damaging to human health, both from direct and indirect causes. Please don't think you are in danger from cycling, and safe while driving. It is very much the opposite.
Our universally accessible health care system pools the risk from all individuals. Those who partake in risker activities (driving) and require more medical care, are subsidised by healthier people performing safer and healthier activities (cycling). If we followed your logic Steven, then we shouldn't pay the medical care costs of people injured in car crashes, because it is so dangerous; or for smokers; or people who overeat--the list goes on and on. I'm sure I could put you in one or more risk categories...let us see if we can get out of paying your medical care costs?An error occurred while saving the comment MZan
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Cycling is not dangerous!!
Cycling is safer then walking, and much safer then driving!
Promoting helmets is simple fear-mongering. A cycle helmet will do you little good if a Hummer is barreling down at you at 60 km/h! Cycle helmets are designed for simple, low-speed falls, NOT MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS! It does not matter if people cycle in motor vehicle lanes or not, helmets do not improve cyclist safety in motor vehicle crashes. This victim blaming strategy needs to stop now! The focus should be on dangerous driving, which primarily manifests itself through over-speeding, and insufficient space margins while passing. That is where the threat is perceived...from cars, and it is not eliminated by putting a piece of styrofoam on your head. Target resources for the AVOIDANCE of collisions by slowing down motor vehicles where cars and bicycles mix, provide physically separated infrastructure and education for both cyclists and motorists on what constitutes appropriate behaviour on the road. And even though we don't have the infrastructure of Copenhagen, it is safe and healthy to cycle, and by doing so, you are making it even safer to cycle. Now that is a win-win!MZan
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The Rediscover Granville program was a big success in 2009, and the City will be looking to continue and build upon this work in future years. More broadly, the draft Greenest City plan will include directions to explore pedestrian-only and pedestrian-priority streets in the downtown core. Potential locations will be identified at a later date (e.g. as part of the transportation plan update).
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/currentplanning/granvilleredesign/rediscover/
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With plans to bring transit back to Granville, our pedestrian street is being taken away from us. Space designated for people is being lost to automobiles. We do not need cars on this corridor, and transit is doing just fine on Seymour and Howe, so why do we need to destroy such a great street by forcing the return of motorised transport?
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I would like to amend that on Granville St., south of Smithe, if transit will continue on this routing, the curb lanes can be upgraded to bus/bike only lanes (red tarmaced). The removal of flex-parking south of Nelson is still required and definitely recommended.
P.S. The stared-out word is "*****," not some profanity...I guess the moderator didn't like it?!MZan
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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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The Burnaby Committee of the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition is looking in the prospects of Kingsway as a new arterial cycling route. We hope to work with the Cities of Burnaby and Vancouver to help make Kingsway a complete street through the inclusion of cycling infrastructure.
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The removal of car parking, and appropriate pricing mechanisms can achieve this end without the need to build unsightly and expensive multi-level parking garages. Index the demand for parking to 85% of the supply through the use of appropriate rates. This way, people are not circling the park, looking for parking. It also serves as a disincentive to driving, which is the ultimate goal...not to provide ample cheap parking at the park entrance. After all, most of the emissions and GHGs are generated for the much longer trip to and from the park, then the relatively short distance traveled from the park entrance to a parking lot.
Knowing that parking is limited, and expensive, serves as a significant disincentive to using an automobile to make the trip. There is no use in driving if there is no where to park your car! -
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This is a policy direction that was adopted in the 1997 Transportation Plan. Staff have since been in discussion with provincial officials about legislative changes to support municipal control over blanket speed limits. Unfortunately those changes have not yet been adopted by the province.
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The City supports the idea of road / congestion pricing, and bridge tolls are one possible implementation. A regional (as opposed to a downtown or city) approach might work best, given travel behaviour, patterns of movement, and jurisdictional issues. This lies outside City jurisdiction, so our role is limited to advocacy; changes to Provincial legislation are required.
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This is an evolutionary process. The City of Vancouver is already considered a North American leader in this regard. Current and future plans and projects (e.g. Cambie Corridor Planning Program) will continue to embrace this ideal.
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Some interesting ideas here.
First, a bit of clarification: London doesn’t prohibit cars from entering the city centre; rather it imposes a fee to discourage their use. This is commonly called congestion charging and it can serve multiple purposes: first, it reduces motor vehicle congestion so that the people who really need to drive (e.g. goods movement, taxis, and essential service vehicles) can get around without getting stuck in gridlock; second, it provides a potential revenue source which can be directed to support improvements to more sustainable modes (public transit, active transportation).
Congestion pricing is an interesting idea for Vancouver — both as a means to reduce congestion and to generate revenue to improve transit service. It might make more sense to think about it at the regional (rather than city centre or municipal) level, though, given that it would affect travel patterns across the metropolitan area. It would also…
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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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360 votes
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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The City has supported projects that have voluntarily unbundled parking (e.g. Spectrum), and is actively working to gain authority to require unbundling in new development — this requires changes to Provincial legislation. In 2008, the City proposed the Unbundled Parking Resolution to give BC municipalities the authority to require unbundling in new development. This was passed by the Union of BC Municipalities. Provincial response to date: The Ministry of Community Development will review the proposal and refer the issue to the Development Finance Review Committee for discussion.
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394 votes
An exciting idea!
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Requires support from TransLink. The City will continue to support this idea, through measures including secured rights-of-way (e.g. the centre median on 1st Avenue near the Olympic Village). The recent Olympic Line streetcar demonstration was very successful and helps make the business case for this project.
