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The staff report before us says that to put in this world-class bike lane that Commissioner Verdi is referring to is between $20 million to $50 million, and that is going to take multiple, multiple cycles through the capital budgeting plan to implement that. We are here now committing to that today with this motion as amended going forward. There's safety risks that this is implementing.

There are hundreds and hundreds of people that have learned to love this bike lane. They're seniors. They are people with mobility challenges that use that lane because it's the only one that works for them in their hand cycles, and there is just so many reasons to keep this thing.

But we are facing a time of climate crisis in our city, in our province, and in our planet, and biking is going to be one of the key solutions to it. Change is people are anxious that there might not be space for them in this city and in Stanley Park, and we can answer that with option, certainly with option A, definitely with option B, and not with option C because it eliminates hundreds and hundreds of cyclists who would otherwise use the park. I am, so I am, you know, clearly this has gone off the rails tonight, and I won't be satisfied until we see this fixed sometime soon.

There's a 200-metre section along Stanley Park Drive at the very north end there. And the bikes and cars are going to have to funnel together, and then there's going to be a horse carriage plugging that up. Does the park board staff have a plan of how to manage that actually fairly dangerous situation?