. . . . in front of your screen, in HD, with musical accompaniment. And imagine it as a greenway. Yikes!!!
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It should remain with its prime purpose as a rail corridor with the tracks still in place. The video shows sufficient room for bikes and pedestrians on one or both sides separated perhaps by a fence from the rail. Once rail is removed, it will never be replaced based on current Canadian practice. It will then be a nice linear park for the “crème de la crème” as what proportion of the greater civic population would use it…compare what benefits would flow even for the usually uncomfortable Arbutus bus passengers if it was rail transit from say a certain subway planned that dumps people at Arbutus. Or does only the west side get parks and bike paths a la Point Grey?
The long term plan is to have light rail on it, but that won’t happen for a long time, as TransLink still is looking for money to fund other much higher priorities.
As for it being just for the locals. I beg to differ. The route connects to many east/west bicycle routes, it also will be easy to connect to downtown via the Burrard and Granville bridges and to Richmond via the Canada line bridge. There is also a fabulous view of the city from the section between 33 and 37th avenues. There is a similar trail in Richmond and it draws people from across the region, not just those living along it, as does Vancouver’s seawall trail.
Google maps does a pretty good job of calculating trip times. I chose a trip from Kerrisdale to Downtown and here are the results:
Car – 17 minutes
Bike – 34 minutes
Transit – 31 to 42 minutes.
But bike wins out over transit because the rider gets necessary exercise at the same time as getting transportation, If we take away 30 minutes as essential exercise, the trip downtown only takes 4 minutes while the return trip takes 42 minutes (uphill takes a little longer) for an average of 23 minutes each way. This definitely beats transit and is way less expensive to build/maintain. An e-bike would be even faster. The key is to make the path wide enough to accommodate huge volumes.
I’m all for cycling investment, but this is some pretty funky math lol.
It should have a train of some kind of it along with paths etc, but it won’t.
A nice linear park / greenway, enjoyed by joggers, walkers and bikers alike. A true gem and addition for the city.
We should close a few more E-W and N-S streets roads for cars and make them green ways like this !
Absolutely. Maybe as shown on this City of Vancouver plan?
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