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Tom Digby
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A bus lane shared with cyclists? I mean, it's a completely non-feasible
Meeting Date:
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.
Meeting Date:
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"
We've gotten rid of the bike lane and now we're worried about where the parking is going to go in the park?
Meeting Date:
Removing Stanley Park bike lane and lack of vehicle parking
"I'm just struck with the comedy of the irony of those last two questions. We've gotten rid of the bike lane and now we're we're worried about where the parking is going to go in the park? So I'll let you solve that question."