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I think it's ludicrous to assume that we can have a safe, welcoming, great street with people on scooters zipping down the sidewalk. It's not going to happen. It's not a safe street.

It doesn't become a pedestrian-friendly street. It actually becomes, like, more of an awkward street to navigate. And we know that if we're going to talk about patios and restaurants, we're going to have food delivery guys.

This is an opportunity to really think forward, think future, and do it right now. So I'm not going to support this amendment. I really wish there was more of an opportunity to have more of a conversation around how we could land something on option two, because I think that is the best way to go.

Induced demand. So do we answer, so we're suggesting basically that if with a great street, we would be inducing the demand for people to have patios there or whatever and spend more time on Broadway. Would that same notion apply to giving more access to active transportation or giving more access to vehicular traffic?

I think implicit in this is a real kind of thoughtful reconsideration around some of the street furnishings around Granville Street and stuff, which were a bit threadbare. How we, when we're talking about a pedestrian area, are we incorporating good, stable bicycle lockups, which is there is a dearth of on Granville Street right now, how we're accommodating a lot of the new sort of micro mobility, and especially in the context of deliveries and stuff. So there's a lot of great, really fantastic opportunity