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With the correspondence, with various emails, and plus during our election, we did knock on 70,000 doors. Many people were concerned. Well, there's two groups of people.

The one is that want the bike lane open, and they're concerned about not being able to bike safely. And then we have a majority population that's concerned about accessibility into the park, a park that's meant for everyone that's living in Vancouver and otherwise in BC. So we had various opinions, and we've concluded, or I've concluded that accessibility to people that are disabled, families, seniors, and others should be, the park should be accessible to everyone, not just bikers.

And having only one lane decreases accessibility.

So with that, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, we'd like to direct the staff to immediately restore the pre-COVID traffic and parking configuration on Stanley Park Drive in time for the upcoming December 2022 peak holiday season, and further that, that staff be directed to report back to the board on or before December 15, 2022, to update the board on actions taken pursuant to the direction in A above, that the park board sorry, that the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation direct staff to reframe and otherwise repurpose the current mobility study towards a comprehensive strategy as a planning tool that can deliver new, permanent, dedicated cycling infrastructure in the park with considerations for accessibility for persons with disabilities, seniors and families, safer multimodal access to the parks, equitable access for all recreation and cultural users, tourist access, including tour bus parking, environmental considerations such as reducing idling and the resulting GHC emissions, the emergence of new micro mobility modes of travel, and further that staff be directed to report back to the board with a planning outline on or before earlier February 2023.

Thank you. I would like to make the motion of Stanley Park Drive, temporary bike lane, next steps. And we brought this motion forward because we were worried about the equitable access to Stanley Park, including disabled people, seniors and people or families with small children, plus being that there's only a single lane, we were concerned about the BC buses being able to come in, which they're not right now, plus the tourism buses as well. They don't have a place to park, which is affecting the small businesses in Stanley Park.