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  1. Build the Downtown Streetcar Network

    543 votes
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    10 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    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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  2. Car Free Sundays

    35 votes
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    5 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
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    Russ Ashworth commented  · 

    By all means have car free days but please lets not have have transit free days. In fact lets pretend that these busy shopping streets were like this all the time and were carrying hundreds of people straight to the front doors of the stores and restaurants and maybe customers and business owners will get used to the idea and want to do it permanently. Then we can get wider sidewalks and streetcars.

  3. fine drivers of noisy motorcycles

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  4. Stop making pedestrians push buttons at intersections with traffic lights

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    3 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
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    Russ Ashworth commented  · 

    There is no consistency anyway. Many intersections don't have a button one way or they hide the button some distance away in a place very difficult to access by wheel chair. This means that you often have to wait one or two turns before you can get the light to change.

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  5. Give TransLink more funding!

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    9 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
    AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    Requires support from the provincial and federal governments. The draft Greenest City plan will advocate for new sources of funding for improved transit (e.g. congestion pricing, vehicle levies).

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  6. Allow building awnings to extend to edge of sidewalks

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  7. More passenger ferries

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    2 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
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  8. 99 B-Line along Broadway to use Trolley Buses via an express trolley wire, similiar to Hastings St.

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
    AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    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. Electric-powered trolleys are included as part of the bus options.

    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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  9. Heat pumps not electric baseboards in all new homes!

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    3 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Build carbon neutral new buildings  ·  Admin →
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  10. Bring back the #1 Fairview Beltline route

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  11. Higher parking fees / cheaper transit tickets

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    10 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
    AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    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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  12. Divert sewer runoff into groundwater

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Improve water quality  ·  Admin →
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  13. Expand the use of electric trolley buses and electric vehicles

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    13 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
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