City of Vancouver: Done with separated bike lanes for now
Posted September 11, 2010 9:24 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Drivers who hate separated bike lanes will be happy to hear there are no more on the city of Vancouver’s radar, at least for now. The city says Hornby Street lane connecting Dunsmuir and the Burrard Bridge should be the last one.
Trips into downtown using bikes are up nearly two fold. Transit use and walking are also way up and driving trips are down at least 10 per cent. However, Director of Transportation Jerry Dobrovolny says Council’s plan has been very specific. The Dunsmuir lane was phase one, Hornby Street is phase two, but Dobrovolny says that’s it. A greenway is being worked on in the downtown core, but doesn’t involve drastic separation.
The city says there’s been huge growth in jobs and population downtown in the last 15 years. There’s no more room for cars, so Dobrovolny says we need to open up road capacity for other users. He says the city is not trying to squeeze cars out of downtown, but wants to encourage walking, cycling, and transit use by eliminating barriers created by heavy traffic.
