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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 actually don't have a regularized pavement marking maintenance schedule and we could probably stand to do one.

I think we probably all receive various emails and concerns from folks about road visibility. I think anybody driving on the roads in Vancouver probably recognizes that road visibility is not that great. And certainly as somebody who is a regular cyclist, road visibility, pavement markings is pretty degraded, especially in the dark and in the gloom and in these winter months.

So that is the gist of the motion.

And I myself, you know, as everybody knows, I'm out there on a bicycle a lot. I'm a vulnerable road user. This is selfishly something that makes a difference to me and it makes a difference to a lot of people in my community.

I'm in a very active transportation community. So these are my neighbors and friends that are directly benefiting from this. And I think it does really speak to, I think, our values as a city and the opportunities because we are a small, compact city.

We are seeing this explosion in, you know, e-device micro mobility that could radically transform. I mean, the hilarious part is I get, now that Mobis have electric bikes, I get to city hall faster from my place than I could ever get in a car. It's just impossible to get in a vehicle at the same speed as an electric bike because I can zip through traffic.

It's efficient. And I think more and more people are coming alive to that. So when we look at opportunities where we can make it safer and more attractive to use active transportation, I think that's a win.

That's a win for our environment. It's a win for our city. It's a win for affordability and it's a win for public safety.

So thank you again to Councilor Dominato for bringing this across the line. Thanks for everybody for the support on this.