[Talk-ca] Fwd: [gvcc-members] Vancouver votes to spend $25 Million on 55 km of new bike lanes

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi talk-ca list,

I just needed to forward this to everyone... as it means that the whole area
needs to be actively biked & mapped on OSM OpenCycleMap to keep up with the
pace :)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.214&lon=-122.948&zoom=11&layers=00B0FTF



Cheers,
Sam


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brian Collier <briancollier at shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Subject: [gvcc-members] Vancouver votes to spend $25 Million on 55 km of new
bike lanes
To: gvcc-members at yahoogroups.com




 Vancouver city council has voted unanimously to spend $25 million over the
next two years to build 55 kilometres of new bike lanes as part of a 10-year
plan.

About four per-cent of commuters use bikes, but Mayor Gregor Robertson is
hoping the investment will attract more people to hop on their bikes.

"The city had a goal to have 10 per cent of people riding by 2010, and we
did not hit that. We got stuck at about four per cent some years ago,
because there wasn't any investment in infrastructure," said Robertson.

"I'd like us to hit that ten per cent mark. It may take five or 10 years to
get there, but we'll make a significant investment over the next two years
and track the numbers really closely to see how close we are," said
Robertson.

The city says the $25-million dollar outlay equals about a third of what
will be spent on roads and bridges over the same period.

The plan includes cash for additional bike parking, a new east-to-west bike
route along 45th Avenue, better connections to the Canada Line, and a trial
of fully separated bike lanes along some busy routes.

In the past year the city has already added bike lanes to the Burrard Street
Bridge and the Dunsmuir Viaduct, raising the total to about 415 kilometres
of bike lanes already in Vancouver.


Read more:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/05/06/bc-bike-lane-plan-vancouver.html?ref=rss#ixzz0nCH6VUS0





Brian Collier

Victoria, BC

250-385-0885


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Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition
http://www.gvcc.bc.ca/
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