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Serious implications to traffic and pedestrian and cyclists safety on Cornwall Avenue
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Introducing motion to reduce traffic speeds on Cornwall Avenue to protect pedestrians and cyclists
I think though, this is a reflection of, you know, some pretty serious implications to traffic and safety for pedestrians and cyclists along Cornwall Avenue. And we've heard from many members of the public about how important this is.
And of course, we had some pretty serious incidents in the past. Involved a car jumping up onto the curb and striking and injuring a child. We know that we've introduced similar kind of pilots to reduce speeds on arterials already.
And so the timing of this is rather coinciding with the long-awaited school slow streets on arterials. But I think that there's an imminent and preeminent need for this kind of speed reduction, given the popularity of Cornwall in the summer months. And this would be something great to initiate and move forward right now.
what this amendment really says and what the overall approach is that bikes aren't welcome, that active transportation is not going to be welcome on Broadway
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Motion to Remove Active Transportation Infrastructure from Broadway Project
And, you know, and what this amendment really says and what the overall approach is that bikes aren't welcome, that active transportation is not going to be welcome on Broadway. Because the reality is that if you want to participate in this great street, if you want to access all those things and you don't want to have to go up and down the hill, you're going to have to ride on the road. And if anybody's ridden an actual, ridden a bicycle on Broadway, that's horrible.
That's scary. You've got buses coming up behind you. It's not a great place to ride a bicycle.
And I've done it. The time to do this is now. We've got the streets ripped up.
There's not a lot of traffic on Broadway that we've normally seen. And this comes back to that whole notion that I brought up a few times about induced demand. If we build the active transportation lane, people will come.
If we build more car lanes, more cars will come. This is the time where we make these kind of visionary decisions to really define what a great street's going to look like. It's not going to be any cheaper.
We can have the patio. We can have the sidewalks. And we can have the separated active transportation lanes
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Motion to Remove Active Transportation Infrastructure from Broadway Project
It's not going to be more practical to revisit this later. In fact, there will be more encumbrance because nobody's going to want to rip up Broadway again. I guarantee you that.
And we'll never see this happen. And, you know, we really can have it all. We can have the trees.
We can have the patio. We can have the sidewalks. And we can have the separated active transportation lanes.