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I did want to touch on tangentially related subject of bus service along Powell from the Powell Overpass over to Nanaimo and the intersect with active transportation.

I know staff are actively working to address the gap in that network, but what I see right now is if we're wanting to implement a dedicated lane along that route and we want active transportation, right now, I think the proposal staff are proposing deals with Wall Street, but doesn't actually deal with Powell. How will that work together? Because it's a very narrow corridor, it's heavily used by industry and I don't know that we've found the sweet spot around this and I'm really curious if we're going to maybe re-envision that work around the active transportation in the context of wanting to have dedicated public transit and dedicated lanes along that corridor.

Okay, thank you. I do want to circle back to the subject of the work that was done around schools, in particular, the slower speeds around schools and arterials, also on collector streets. Thank you for that work.

I'm glad to see some improvement, but I'm curious, we have had a number of emails around Stratford Hall School on Commercial Drive and I committed to the parents who contacted us to ask, you know, is there some possibility, they said they haven't really felt there's been, they said they looked at the data that there wasn't really a reduction in speed even though we posted 40 in front of the school and there's the school, there's a daycare and there's Clark Park.

Are we, is there an opportunity to reduce that speed further? I think it unfortunately is still an arterial and our policy is that we don't go down to 30 on arterials, but what options are there for dealing with that route?

.. around Clinton Park, I was asked not that long ago by residents about the possibility of adding a crossing. It's at First Avenue, and I can't remember what side of Clinton Park there is a crossing to cross over to the other side, and it's largely because it's highly used by youth travelling to Van Tech in the north part of that neighbourhood.

And so I'll have to find the intersection particular, but I will. It's just when you're taking the designated cycling route, there seems to be a little bit of a gap in the network there, and so I'll send an email separately about that, but I was asked by a number of neighbours about that.