Christopher Porter
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272 votes
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43 votes
Outside city boundaries and jurisdiction. Addressing major gaps in the regional cycling network could potentially be addressed through the relevant local municipalities and/or TransLink. TransLink’s draft regional cycling strategy can be found here: http://translink.ca/cycling .
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155 votes
An exciting idea that will be given serious consideration.
An error occurred while saving the comment It looks like the city is going to go ahead with this, thinking they can avoid the pitfalls experienced in Melbourne (the only city with a mandatory helmet law to try bike sharing). If it succeeds, great! If it fails, maybe it will be the motivator to scrap the mandatory helmet law.
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506 votes
The draft Greenest City Action Plan includes a variety of actions to support the availability of local food at the local level.
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176 votes
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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229 votes
Transit (and transit fares!) are controlled by TransLink, not the city. Having said that, reducing or eliminating transit fares is an interesting idea.
Unfortunately it’s not very feasible, at least as TransLink is currently funded. Unlike most North American cities, Vancouver’s transit problems aren’t due to a lack of demand but rather a lack of capacity. Anyone who’s ever tried to squeeze onto one of our busy buses or trains knows this all too well — there isn’t enough space even when people have to pay, let alone accommodate the additional demand that would be created if transit were free. Compare this to cities with fare-free zones, which are typically struggling for increase demand, and which typically have (a) less frequent service and/or (b) plenty of extra capacity to accommodate more riders.
In Vancouver, we need to provide more transit capacity to meet existing demand — and a LOT more…
An error occurred while saving the comment The Tyee did a great piece on free public transit a few years ago ( http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/07/05/NoFares/ ).
It seems to work well in cities that have underused capacity and are trying to encourage people to visit their downtowns, or college towns where the students have a U-pass. Vancouver doesn't fit either of those. As much as I'd like to see better transit, making it free isn't the solution. We need more capacity. -
408 votes
Provincial jurisdiction.
An error occurred while saving the comment Interesting article on the helmet debate in Australia, where a judge recently sided with a cyclist who argued helmets laws are unnecessary, and helmets might be more dangerous to cyclists.
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133 votes
Implementation of the City’s streetcar plan (http://vancouver.ca/streetcar) might help to enable this, by providing dramatically improved transit service to Granville Island.
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334 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment It's amazing how much a small fee (as little as 5 cents) will do to reduce consumption of plastic bags. First, it forces retailers to ask consumers if they want a bag, which forces consumers to ask themselves if they really need a bag. Often we don't.
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146 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment San Francisco is doing it http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/03/MNUN1ENQJ0.DTL
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8 votes
Outside City jurisdiction. Improved transit options for the Sea-to-Sky route would be most welcome, but from a city and regional perspective, other routes have a higher priority (e.g. Broadway Corridor rapid transit).
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14 votes
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10 votes
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394 votes
An exciting idea!
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543 votes
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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1,073 votes
Low footprint food choices are not the same as vegan food choices in all cases, the analysis is more complex than this. Generally a low footprint diet is local, seasonal food, and limits consumption of red meat, dairy, and some grains. Low footprint food choices are included in the draft Greenest City Action Plan and will be discussed through community engagement activities.
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770 votes
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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1,002 votes
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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78 votes
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426 votes
