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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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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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Included in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan.
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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.
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Included in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan.
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An exciting idea!
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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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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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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 will it take? An extensive network of bike paths and lanes. Traffic calming. Modifying intersections and crossings so that they are friendlier to pedestrians and bikes. More bike parking. A share bike system like Montreal Bixi or Paris Velib, to make access to bikes easy. Full integration with public transit, including using Translink passes for the share bike system. Training and education. Promotional events. Stronger and complementary development, parking and land use policies that re-balance our transportation system to support the city's stated priority of transportation users: 1) Pedestrians; 2) Cyclists; 3) Public transit; 4) Transit of materials and equipment; 5) Private automobiles. Vancouver is moving in that direction, but we need to move more quickly. Start with successes, like the Burrard Bridge and Dunsmuir separated lanes. As the naysayers see that these changes haven't caused the world to end, the next ones will become less controversial. The target: to encourage people who are interested in biking as transportation (not just for recreation) to feel comfortable riding their bikes, so that by 2020 the percentage of all trips in the city will have grown from the current 4% by bike, to 20%. That's 20 by 2020. We can do it.
