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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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It is important to stop thinking of protected bicycle lanes, and bicycle infrastructure in general, as luxury pieces of prestige public works. Instead I think of them as sidewalks. Sidewalks are necessary because people and cars cannot safely mix in the same space and because people want to be close to the buildings that line a city street. Sidewalks are not built because of studies show that they will not inconvenience automobiles or that they will be able to be fit in the width of the street without taking away room for cars. Instead they are built because people need a safe place to walk and sidewalks are a necessary component of the urban fabric of a city. When you look at protected bicycle lanes, and bicycle infrastructure in general, from this perspective it is clear that our current city is deficient.
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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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@Peter Finch
We can do all of those things by reserving a lane in each direction for electric trolley buses. However this does not help people trying to travel greater distances in a reasonable amount of time. We need a true rail rapid transit connection that extends the Millennium Line through Central Broadway to UBC. This would be below grade as a subway, while the prioritized trolley buses would travel at street level. A subway with the spacing of the #99 B-Line would have gigantic ridership and move people over longer distances more quickly and with much greater reliability than buses or streetcars.
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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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Thanks for sharing this idea!
The city’s new active transportation plan will soon be in development, and hopefully completed within the next year.
A big part of the work ahead is to identify the complete cycling network, and the type of facility that is most appropriate and/or feasible for different routes. In some cases (e.g. busy arterial routes), separated lanes might be the best approach; in other cases (e.g. lower car volume neighbourhood streets), enhanced traffic calming and/or further reducing car access might be more appropriate. Travis cited some great examples in the Netherlands where cars are ‘guests’ that are allowed in, but do not dominate.
In all cases, the goal should be to make routes that feel safe to all potential cyclists, including beginners, children, and seniors.
For more information, visit http://vancouver.ca/cycling .
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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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An exciting idea!
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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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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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