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Tom Digby
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Accommodate mobility challenged cyclists on the Stanley Park seawall
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Motion to remove barriers to hand cyclists on the Stanley Park Seawall
"There is one particular community that's completely comprehensively excluded from using the Stanley Park seawall...Those would be hand cyclists.
... they cannot dismount and walk through the gates as so many people... can. So this is a last vestige of ableism in the city is that you can only use the seawall bike lane if you're a fully abled cyclist"Stanley Park Drive Cyclist Safety Endangered by Metro Vancouver Tunneling Project
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Metro Vancouver Water Tunnel Construction Project in Stanley Park
"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?"
A bus lane shared with cyclists? I mean, it's a completely non-feasible
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Questioning to Staff Presenting the Stanley Park Mobility Study Update
",,, the concept of having a bus lane shared with cyclists... It's completely unsafe...Anyone who's an intermediate rider, a senior on an e-bike, a doddler like myself, going up Prospect Hill, I am not going to do it if I'm being chased by a bus. So there's some of the options that are presented here are completely unfeasible, and I'm not sure how the algorithm worked to suggest that somehow that was safe or ever going to be acceptable"