A report from Forbes (‘Capitalist Tool’) of all sources:
Cities as diverse as Berlin and Bogotá are using so-called “tactical urbanism” to take road space from cars overnight and give it to people on foot and on bicycles to keep key workers moving—safely—during lockdown. Now New Zealand has become the first country to provide funding to make tactical urbanism into official government policy during the coronavirus pandemic. …
Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter has invited cities in New Zealand to apply for 90% funding to widen sidewalks and carve out temporary cycleways, measures that can be put in place in hours and days rather than the weeks and months that it can often take to install such infrastructure.
So far, no councillor in Vancouver has been reported as advocating for anything similar. At this point, it looks like Beach Avenue is all they intend to do for the foreseeable future.
Sigh. Sometimes I wish the Green city councillors and Park Board commissioners were actually green.
