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Yeah, so this motion is to request the team, the Stanley Park Mobility Team, to include in the report an 8th option, which reflects the item 1A, a one-way counterclockwise lane using Stanley Park Drive dedicated exclusively for active transport. And you'll see some details. This reflects an option that was considered by this table as option A.

It was known as the 70% option for a while in a memo that this board received in February and voted on February 13th. The 70% option includes the entire west side of the park, leaving the east side to be open to vehicle traffic. We'd like staff to in number 2, to include parking at appropriate locations for seniors who we know have been...

were very committed to this challenge of the bike lane, for mobility challenged users, and for indigenous access to harvest areas and other important culturally areas which we also know is an objection to the previous plans. And that we... finally we include in 3 assessment of potential impacts on businesses in Stanley Park.

There is one particular community that's completely comprehensively excluded from using the Stanley Park seawall. And that is cyclists, mobility challenge cyclists who use alternative types of vehicles to use that bike lane. Those would be hand cyclists.

There are people that cannot dismount from their transportation vehicles and what's carrying them. And they cannot dismount and walk through the gates as so many people, other people, able bodied people can. So this is a last vestige of ableism in the city is that you can only use the seawall bike lane if you're a fully abled cyclist.

,,, the concept of having a bus lane shared with cyclists, I mean, it's a completely non-feasible, all right? It's completely unsafe. Only pro racers would take that bet, that gamble.

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.