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City Councillor
Mike Klassen
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Wait until Broadway is built before adding active transportation
Meeting Date:
Staff Recommendation to Remove Active Transportation Lanes from Broadway Road Design
... my sort of final thought is, you're encouraging us to not go into two or three, but is it really boiled down to, we can't do everything with the street right now. We need to wait for it to get built before we can actually decide how we're going to be able to add all of that extra capacity.
It's important to make our roads safer because they're getting busier
Meeting Date:
Fry motion to revisit, refreshing Vancouver's commitment to safer, slower 30Km/h streets
I just want to speak from the standpoint that our streets are getting even busier right now.
Cars are, there's more cars than there have ever been on the roads today. And in many cases, the vehicles are getting so large as to becoming a real threat. And so having the ability to try and shift the culture a little bit around our transportation routes and in our streets to get people to slow down, think more about how they share the space with other active transportation users and pedestrians is something, it's not easy work.
It's going to take a long time, but I'm happy to support this effort on behalf of this council to try and make sure that we get that work moving and start communicating how important it is that we are trying to be much more safe on our roads.
Traffic fatalities are trending downwards
Meeting Date:
Staff Presentation on Transportation: traffic fatalities, pedestrian safety and vision zero
....Just out of curiosity of that numbers, which is it's terrific to see the number going down trending down, but of the 14 in 2022, for example, how many of those were pedestrian fatalities? I think these are aggregate numbers, including cycles and possible car accidents and what have you. Right?