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Tom Digby
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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"
You're just gonna have a zoo along the seawall. And I think people need to be better protected than that.
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Returning the bike lane to Stanley Park Drive
"...let's talk about Stanley Park Drive, because it used to have a...bike lane on it, which was a very safe place for parents with kids, young, novice, and intermediate cyclists. And with a 25% year-over-year increase of e-bikes and e-scooters...I'm getting more and more interested in seeing that bike lane come back on Stanley Park Drive, because you're simply gonna have a mass, any Sunday, sunny Sunday, you're just gonna have a zoo along the seawall"