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Point taken that adjusting costs of different travel modes to support more sustainable choices is a good idea. The City will continue to review parking fees to better reflect street value and market demand, and the Greenest City Plan adds a more explicit environmental lense to this work. Transit fares fall outside City jurisdiction, and there are multiple factors to consider. Fares are an important revenue source for TransLink; at the same time, it is important that prices are affordable and equitable.
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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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After using composters for organic waste, separating out all recyclable materials (glass, pop bottles, tin cans, cardboard & mixed paper), we've got our trash down to the bare minimum.
So what's left after all that is taken out? Plastic.
Plastic bags from food packaging materials.This stuff doesn't biodegrade for a very long time, and it's the one thing I cannot do anything about myself.
Anything we can do to get rid of plastic that just gets thrown out is a 'good thing' TM.
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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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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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I ride into Downtown every work day.
Not a day goes by that I do not have some entitled driver yell or swerve their car at me like a weapon.
I have been attacked by drivers jumping out of their car to get at me.If Vancouver truly wants to encourage bicycling, there needs to be separated bike paths... but also driver education.
Without education, these people will only become bitter that these 'wacko' cyclists are taking away 'their' road lanes.
So I applaud everything done so far, but there are some big hurdles to overcome still.
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