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Mike Klassen
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Council enthusiastically supports developing a robust active transportation corridor in South Vancouver
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Funding Active Transportation along Kent Avenue
"Kent avenue...is extraordinarily narrow and it has a lot of truck transport... so again it's it's a tall order but certainly it would be really good for this council to be expressing their enthusiastic support of a strategy to help us develop a robust active transportation corridor in that part of [Vancouver]"
Wait until Broadway is built before adding active transportation
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Staff Recommendation to Remove Active Transportation Lanes from Broadway Road Design
"..., we can't do everything with the street right now. We need to wait for it to get built before we can actually decide how we're going to be able to add all of that extra capacity."
It's important to make our roads safer because they're getting busier
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Fry motion to revisit, refreshing Vancouver's commitment to safer, slower 30Km/h streets
"...there's more cars than there have ever been on the roads today. And in many cases, the vehicles are getting so large as to becoming a real threat. And so having the ability to try and shift the culture a little bit around our transportation routes and in our streets to get people to slow down, think more about how they share the space with other active transportation users and pedestrians is something, it's not easy work. It's going to take a long time..."