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Yes, thank you Anthony a very interesting presentation, and I also read the letter that HUB Cycling sent to the Park Board earlier today. Thank you for all of that.
Now there was an assumption you made at the start that City Council has approved the two-way traffic on Beach Ave, but actually that was, as was pointed out, hopefully, is subject to Park Board approval, from the get-go. And that's what City Council said. So I'm just wondering, maybe whether your ambitions on your response are maybe a bit tame, because if Park Board did not want to support two lane traffic, two-way traffic on Beach Ave. Do you think HUB would would maybe go for that, or would accept that, if that was on the table that this board could potentially just reject the concept altogether?

You know, I specifically asked a City Councillor from the ABC party to make representations to us, to tell us why this issue is so urgent, and that councillor went back and said they would take it back to their peers and if they wanted to talk to us they would. And what it tells me is that those councillors themselves are not that interested in seeing two-way traffic on Beach Ave. I have a strong suspicion that they may be made some promises to certain individuals during an election campaign and those, and that now when they looked at it in the real real light of day that they didn't really stand up to support this. So I think that the staff here has done a tremendous effort to try and meet the expectations of Council. But I am gonna do exactly as Commissioner Bastyovanszky. He brilliantly stated and I interrupted him I shouldn't have interrupted him but the park board is here doing what we're supposed to do, which is listen to the people and hear from everyone and then make a decision and with 17 speakers tonight and 290 emails in opposition.

Yeah, so this motion is to request the team, the Stanley Park Mobility Team, to include in the report an 8th option, which reflects the item 1A, a one-way counterclockwise lane using Stanley Park Drive dedicated exclusively for active transport. And you'll see some details. This reflects an option that was considered by this table as option A.

It was known as the 70% option for a while in a memo that this board received in February and voted on February 13th. The 70% option includes the entire west side of the park, leaving the east side to be open to vehicle traffic. We'd like staff to in number 2, to include parking at appropriate locations for seniors who we know have been...

were very committed to this challenge of the bike lane, for mobility challenged users, and for indigenous access to harvest areas and other important culturally areas which we also know is an objection to the previous plans. And that we... finally we include in 3 assessment of potential impacts on businesses in Stanley Park.