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REPORT TO COUNCIL

STANDING COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL
ON TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC

DECEMBER 12, 2000

A Regular Meeting of the Standing Committee of Council on Transportation and Traffic was held on December 12, 2000, at 9:30 a.m., in Committee Room No. 1, Third Floor, City Hall.

PRESENT:	Councillor Jennifer Clarke, Chair Councillor Gordon Price, Vice Chair Mayor Philip Owen Councillor Fred Bass Councillor Lynne Kennedy Councillor Daniel Lee Councillor Don Lee Councillor Tim Louis Councillor Sandy McCormick Councillor George Puil Councillor Sam Sullivan
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE:	Hazel Hoyle, Meeting Coordinator

ADOPTION OF MINUTES

The Minutes of the Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic meeting of September 26, 2000, were adopted.

RECOMMENDATION

1. 3300 Adanac Street - Mid-block Bulges and Crosswalk File: 5702

The Committee had before it an Administrative Report, dated September 12, 2000, in which the General Manager of Engineering Services recommended that Council grant approval and funding for mid-block bulges and a crosswalk in the 3300 block of Adanac Street.

The following motion by Councillor McCormick was put and carried. The Committee, therefore,

RECOMMENDED

A. THAT bulges be installed mid-block in the 3300 block of Adanac Street and that a crosswalk be marked and signed at this location, at a cost of $16,000. Funding to be provided from Streets Basic Capital Unappropriated Account No. 30000326 - Local Area Traffic Plans and Other Improvements.

B. THAT commencing in 2001, the Traffic Operations Maintenance Budget be increased by $100, without offset.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

2. Review of Recent TransLink Studies File: 5559

The Committee had before it an Administrative Report, dated November 28, 2000, in which the General Manager of Engineering Services provides a brief description and summary of findings arising from recent TransLink Studies.

Don Klimchuk, Transportation Monitoring Engineer, with the aid of an overhead projector and hand-outs (on file), presented an overview of the report and gave an outline of the 1999 Lower Mainland Truck Freight Study. Mr. Klimchuk, along with Dave Rudberg, General Manager, Engineering Services and Ian Adam, Assistant City Engineer, responded to questions from the Committee regarding the following:

· demographics targeted in these studies.
· details of how each mode of transportation is being studied.
· movement of goods by large trucks.
· potential for alternate transportation modes.
· the affects that on-line, current, traffic information will have upon the economy.
· the City’s ability to obtain and distribute traffic information in order to maintain control of road systems and traffic.

The following motion by Councillor Puil was put and carried. The Committee, therefore,

RECOMMENDED

THAT the Administrative Report from the General Manager of Engineering Services, on the Review of Recent TransLink Studies, dated November 28, 2000, be received for information.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

The Committee adjourned at 10: 28 a.m.

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CITY OF VANCOUVER

REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
STANDING COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON
TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC

DECEMBER 12, 2000

A Regular Meeting of the Council of the City of Vancouver was held on December 12, 2000 at 10:28 a.m., in Committee Room No. 1, Third Floor, City Hall, following the Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic meeting, to consider the recommendations of the Committee.

PRESENT:	Mayor Philip Owen Councillor Fred Bass Councillor Jennifer Clarke Councillor Lynne Kennedy Councillor Daniel Lee Councillor Don Lee Councillor Tim Louis Councillor Sandy McCormick Councillor Gordon Price Councillor George Puil Councillor Sam Sullivan
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE:	Hazel Hoyle, Meeting Coordinator

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

MOVED by Cllr. Don Lee,
SECONDED by Cllr. McCormick,

THAT this Council resolve itself into Committee of the Whole, Mayor Owen in the chair.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Report of Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic
December 12, 2000

Council considered the recommendations of the Committee, as contained in the following clauses of the foregoing reports:

Cl.1: 3300 Adanac Street - Mid-block Bulges and Crosswalk
Cl.2: Review of Recent TransLink Studies

MOVED by Cllr. Don Lee,

THAT the recommendations of the Committee, as contained in Clauses 1 and 2 of this report, be approved.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

RISE FROM COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

MOVED by Cllr. Kennedy,

THAT the Committee of the Whole rise and report.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

ADOPT REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

MOVED by Cllr. Puil,
SECONDED by Cllr. Price,

THAT the report of the Committee of the Whole be adopted.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

ENQUIRIES AND OTHER MATTERS

1. Leave of Absence - Councillor Sullivan

MOVED by Cllr. Don Lee,
SECONDED by Cllr. McCormick,

THAT Councillor Sullivan be granted Leave of Absence for Civic Business for January 31, 2001 and February 01, 2001.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

The Council adjourned at 10:35 a.m.
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