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  • Carr supports an amendment to add an active transportation lane

    Meeting Date:

    Motion to protect people on Cornwall Avenue

    There is one piece of the amendment that I will support, and that is the final piece around the consideration of active transportation lane or lanes on Cornwall Avenue. As it was stated I had previously voted, well actually I didn't get the chance to vote, I had to vote against the York Avenue route because I was supportive of the Cornwall Avenue route. But that was in 2013, so this issue has been going on for a fair bit of time and I wish that that particular decision had been in line with what I had wanted and what a lot of people who have come forward, like Richard who spoke today had wanted. It would have been a safer street all the way along and maybe avoided some really terrible accidents.

  • The cycling community has raised Kent Ave. as a very dangerous route

    Meeting Date:

    Funding Active Transportation along Kent Avenue

    .. there are so many people in the cycling community who have raised Kent Avenue as a very dangerous route one that really can allow speedy travel through the through the city and so and and connections over to burnaby so I think it's a a good suggestion to have staff really look at this for funding.

  • Reducing speeds to 30kph measurably increases safety for pedestrians and cyclists

    Meeting Date:

    Motion to protect people on Cornwall Avenue

    ... we have heard clearly that if you reduce the speed to 30k it is measurably increasing the safety for pedestrians cyclists versus cars so severing the first two paragraphs is important, well actually all the paragraphs is important to me.