{"id":1001,"date":"2010-10-06T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T07:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:53:00","slug":"vancouver-city-council-approves-3-2-million-separated-bike-lane-hornby-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/vancouver-city-council-approves-3-2-million-separated-bike-lane-hornby-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver City Council APPROVES $3.2 million separated bike lane on Hornby Street!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boldly going where no Vancouver City Council has gone before, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver party took their green vision of a bicycle-friendly downtown Vancouver a step further yesterday (5th October).<\/p>\n<p>After a full day of debate, and only a short while before midnight (11.38 p.m.),\u00a0they <strong>unanimously<\/strong> approved a new $3.2 million separated bike lane on Hornby Street \u2013 despite vociferous opposition from some sectors of the business community, most notably Laura Jones of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Interestingly, even though Global TV News was on at the time of the vote, they apparently did not deem\u00a0it important enough to report on (despite promising at the top of the hour to keep us updated).<\/p>\n<p>I got the news from Twitter! And I am\u00a0reporting it\u00a0in this\u00a0post 22 minutes after it happened, and hours before Global will\u00a0get to it (on tomorrow morning&#8217;s news). I guess\u00a0this is the dawn of a whole new age\u00a0of information sharing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11500\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00EM2HVOK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00EM2HVOK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=avejoecyc0e-20&amp;linkId=AKU4XREL2M5EUT5R\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11500\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/safe-bike-routes-61\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Safe Bike Routes 6(1)\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11500 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11500\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/safe-bike-routes-61\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Safe Bike Routes 6(1)\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?fit=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11500 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?resize=250%2C187&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/averagejoecyclist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Safe-Bike-Routes-61.jpg?resize=320%2C240&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cyclists on Hornby Street bike right next to cars. At rush hour this becomes dangerous, especially approaching Georgia, where cars cut across the cycling lane to turn right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new, physically separated two-way bike lane on Hornby Street will connect the separated bike lane on the Burrard Street Bridge (opened July 2009) with the separated bike lane on Dunsmuir Street (opened March 2010).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Downtown Vancouver will now have a (very basic) network of separated bike lanes that will\u00a0facilitate safe bicycle commuting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of this <a href=\"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/?p=105\" target=\"_blank\">pro-cycling initiative<\/a>, Vancouver has witnessed an exponential growth in downtown cyclist traffic: for example, cyclist traffic on the\u00a0Dunsmuir cycle lane increased from 100 per day to 2,000 per day in the first five months after it opened.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of this issue is a fierce debate about the future of transportation in Vancouver. While the population and number of jobs are growing rapidly, <strong>car trips into the city declined by 10%<\/strong> in the last 13 years, thanks to a long-term strategy to discourage car traffic. At the same time, <strong>total trips increased by 23%<\/strong> &#8211; with the difference accounted for by an increase in cycling, walking and transit. This despite the fact that only 1% of Vancouver\u2019s street space is set aside for cyclists!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With the city expected to grow by another 23% by 2041, Vancouver needs to find alternative means for people to get around. <strong>Surveys show that 60% of residents would cycle downtown if it was safer<\/strong>. So it seems that safe, separated\u00a0cycling lanes are the way to go!<\/p>\n<p>The budget for this new lane is $3.2 million \u2013 an amount which has been the subject of outraged protests by the anti-cyclist brigade. But this\u00a0is <em>equivalent to the price of three buses<\/em> \u2013 without the accompanying upkeep costs! And the average cost to build infrastructure for cars is $1 million per block. As the Hornby bike lane will span\u00a0eight blocks, this means that <em>a similar length of road for cars would cost $8 million<\/em> &#8211; more than twice as much as the budget for this bike route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So while we rejoice in this decision, let\u2019s keep it in perspective: <strong>One Giant Step for Cyclists, One Small Step for Vancouver\u2019s Budget<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Did you like this post or find it useful? 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