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Envisioning a future with reduced reliance on cars and much greater transit, walking, cycling
Meeting Date:
Rezoning 6081-6083 Collingwood Place for a five-story rental building
"...how you would consider designing a street like this or even any part of the city in the context of climate change ... where there is a reduced use and reliance on cars and much greater alternative transportation methods...."
In the context of climate change, it's important to increase use of alternative methods of tranportation like transit, cycling and walking
Meeting Date:
Rezoning 6081-6083 Collingwood Place for a five-story rental building
".. I've been to lots of your cities where the streets are pretty narrow but they are car-light and cars travel extremely slowly. They're mostly pedestrian and cycling and transit-oriented. So I'm wondering, are you suggesting that we continue to think about the use of that street as a car-heavy street and be concerned about that kind of traffic? Or should we be thinking about a very different kind of city as we move forward?."
We should be thinking about cities that are people first cities
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Fry motion to revisit, refreshing Vancouver's commitment to safer, slower 30Km/h streets
"..., more cars, bigger cars, wrong direction. We really should be thinking about cities that are people first cities. ... the Vancouver plan actually does that... it is our direction now to put into a official community plan and the reallocation, for example, of 11% of neighborhood streets to non-car uses was probably one of the most popular things outside of increasing affordable housing was in every neighborhood of Vancouver... "