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Vision council says: “No more new (separated) bike lanes this term”

October 6th, 2010 · 21 Comments

It’s a year and seven weeks from the election. That means it’s time to stop doing things that get everyone riled up, according to a time-honoured tradition of all governments, and start doing less fight-inducing things.

So it wasn’t surprising to hear from Vision Councillor Geoff Meggs this morning that the Hornby bike-lane vote will be the last of its kind for this term. According to him, the only other bike work that people will see are a non-separated Comox-Helmcken connector to the Central Valley Greenway bike route (originally budgeted in the last administration) and various bits of road work to make some sections smoother to ride along and so on.

(I do have someone emailing me faithfully and persistently this week, however, saying there are another two blocks on Pacific, from Hornby to Davie, that are going to become a separated lane? Anyone know anything about this?)

Now we’ll wait to see what really happens along Hornby — what the impact is on businesses, whether cyclists start shopping en masse downtown, whether city staff and councillors keep tracking “feedback loops,” as the mayor called them, to make sure any businesses having a hard time get some kind of help or adjustments.

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