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A critical challenge for Vancouver. Laneway housing, STIR, the 20% Inclusionary Zoning Policy, and other programs and policies are intended to help increase housing affordability— see http://vancouver.ca/housing. The draft Greenest City plan recognizes the importance of affordability and will review additional strategies, e.g. unbundled parking.
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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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What stops people from driving bikes downtown? Some reasons could be: too far to commute by bike, fear of sharing the road with cars, fear of having your bike stolen, inconvenience and weather. So attack each of these problems 1 by 1. (These are simplistic solutions, but they could spark some further discussion and improvements)
1. Commuting by bike is not feasible to most who come in from the suburbs, so the best solution to this problem is better transit and more support for businesses to set up in the suburbs where people live.
2. Regarding sharing the road - if you make some downtown roads two lanes both ways with no street parking you would improve bike safety. The inner lane becomes a dedicated bus and bike lane and nobody who bikes on that road will need to worry about having car doors opening into them from parked cars.
3. Eliminate the fear of having your bike stolen by offering a bike service similar to Zip Cars. For a very small subscription fee (it would need to be small and the service would probably need to be subsidized - take some money from the horrible parking fees we pay!), be able to take a bike and use it, drop it off at your destination and not have to worry about it. The bikes could be visually distinct (so everyone would know what bikes were in the system) and work on a key system - have a system key and the bike works. No key, and the wheels don't turn. Have enough of these bikes around town and everyone will use them, eliminating having drug addicts stealing bikes for money since the illegal bike market would decrease.
4. Inconvenience... hard to think up a solution to this one. Given improvements to both transit (point 1 above) and bike availability (point 3 above) perhaps this would be enough for most people to overcome their lethargy.
5. Weather - can't do much about this, but you could have covered bike paths I suppose. The bike route under the Skytrain could fairly easily be covered, and putting a covered bike path down Arbutus (where the train tracks are right now [cummon guys, get the land and use it for something useful!]) could meet this criteria.
Anyways, some ideas off the top of my head.
