- More bikeways; less cars
- Cycle corridors, E - W, N - S
- cycle routes - dedicated
- Get rid of privately owned automobile
- Less accommodation of motor-vehicles more for pedestrians and cyclists
- Eliminate advance right turn lights that cut off pedestrians
- No doubt cycle routes. I have been commuting into downtown Vancouver for the
last five years. The majority of bikers coming over Burrard Street bridge head
down Burrard Street which desperately requires a shared bus/bike lane. Also
the end of Burrard Street at the Pacific Ave. intersections is a disaster from
a bikers point of view. On Green lights one has to come to a full stop
(complete destruction of all kinetic energy that is required to climb the hill
up to Davies) and cross the Burrard Bridge off-ramp that merges into Pacific
Ave. at the Kettle of Fish restaurant. This is pure nonsense and very
dangerous. I have seen several accidents and many almost accidents at this
site. I am not a traffic expert but bikers desperately need a way how to avoid
stopping at green lights at this intersection. This would require some sort of
a merging lane from the bike path on the bridge down onto the road with signs
for drivers that bikers will merge and have the right of way. A bike lane down
Burrard Street could then begin some 50m onto the bridge going north merging
from an off-ramp from the bike path on the bridge.
- Cycle routes (safe), bikes are not given right-of-way when in the right.
West Van. bus did not yield at yield sign when I was next to driver. I was
pushed into center lane.
- Increase bike routes! I would bike regularly downtown, but don't because it
doesn't feel SAFE especially when travelling with my child. I love the bike
routes developed throughout the rest of the city
- I would increase facilities for pedestrians and cyclists e.g. wider
sidewalks bike lanes
- An EXPRESS connection between Granville and Broadway and downtown (Granville
and Robson or near about). Also, maybe a similar connection from Broadway and
Cambie
- More buses NO SkyTrain CROSS - CITY (Richmond etc) service
- A north south and east west route for bicycles only
- More advanced greens - bus bays
- Cycle and pedestrian transit routes. No cars or buses allowed I already
commute by bicycle year round
- More streets like Granville which are only for buses and bikes
- Make a definite bike lane for cyclists
- Create roads w/no cars (i.e.. Granville pedestrian. area). Robson - get rid
of cars in commercial (shopping) area I refuse to own a car
- Dedicate curb lane for buses so the bus can travel faster than car
- Provide a network of streets that are limited to bicycles, people buses only
- Add high-speed (30kmh) paved bike lanes along main routes. The serious cycle
commuters I know (serious meaning most commuting to work is done by bike) ride
at between 20kmh and 40kmh on the flat. We want to get to work quickly and
safely like everyone else, and not be relegated to safer but significantly
slower "casual tourist" routes. The Lane on Burrard is a good start.
Now if we could get one on Cornwall!!
- Transit routes or facilities
- NO CARS
- Pedestrian section like in Europe
- More buses. The overcrowding and long waits between buses caused me to avoid
the bus in favour of car and bicycle. The buses offer poor value especially
since the recent fair increase. For $1.75 I expect more frequent buses.
- More and better cycling routes for a safer less intimidating environment
- Dedicated bike and pedestrian routes (no cars) to downtown and through the
city
- Rain shelters for pedestrian and bikers
- no vehicles what so ever on Granville Robson Davie Denman
- to eliminate cars from the core of the city as has been done in many
European cities
- (two -tied) a)More rapid transit to and from downtown in the North-South
Direction (i.e. to YVR/Richmond. b) eliminate one-way system on Water St. and
Cordova, "calm the traffic" this area has potential to become more
than a "T-shirt and trinket" tourist trap without the zooming
traffic.
- Improve response time on pedestrian activated traffic lights
- I would remove on-street parking from key arteries and restripe the roadways
for bikeways, providing more trees downtown and wider sidewalks
- Dedicated bike routes and bike lanes, bike allowed on SkyTrain/more bus
racks a subway rail system connecting N Van with the airport and Stanley park
with Burnaby
- separate cycle routes
- Definitely walkways need to be greatly improved in Vancouver - more, and
better indicated crosswalks
- Have bicycle lanes on many roads!!!!!
- take the rush hours off at Denman, Davie, and Robson and build corner bulges
everywhere
- cycle routes through downtown in both directions (N-S) and E-W
- add bike lanes
- more buses during rush hours on Granville on Burrard on Main & Cambie
- safe cycling routes including motor vehicle driver education and designated
lanes
- Free transit or failing that a comprehensive study and analysis of the
complete and long-term costs of traffic congestion; pollution; wasted time;
road maintenance; policing; traffic accidents; licensing and inspections etc
- I would add more bike lanes/routes. Or how about more signage on the
existing ones and a little enforcement of the way cars use these
"shared" streets?
- Make the downtown much more bicycle-friendly. Why isn't there a bicycle lane
along Hornby, Richards, or one of the other streets? Please try to make it
safer to get to the Burrard Street bridge from the downtown. (I also think you
should ask people in the survey if they own a car. I don't own a car by
choice.)
- More bikeways
- Reallocation of general car space to serve alternative transportation
- increase cycle commuting routes
- more dedicated bicycle lanes, 1.5m wide (if wider, cars try to use them)
- Make a safe bicycle crossing of Pacific northbound on Burrard. The problem
is that the right turn bay is considered two lane by vehicle drivers, and so
even cautious crossing can be a problem.
- Establish safer cycling access (e.g. wider parking lanes, or dedicated
cycling lane) along main routes on/off bridges (e.g. Burrard,
Granville/Seymour/Howe) - right now it's a little nightmarish alongside the
rush hour traffic.
- Discourage use of private automobiles in the downtown core area and make
public transit convenient.
- Free shuttle buses between key points and less cars. Cycle routes, Bike
lanes.
- Dedicated Bicycle only lane
- Legislate, advertise, and strictly ENFORCE reduced speed limit on most
roads, 40k/h on some and 30 k/h on busy streets such as Robson.
- Fare-free downtown zone for bikes
- Bike routes, Bike routes, Bike routes
- Separate route 99 (highway) from the city streets.
- More and safer bicycle routes
- I would implement a carefully considered network of bicycle lanes on the
downtown roadways.
- Bicycle routes or bike lanes on most streets. Also: make transit cheaper
relative to parking, tolls for cars entering the downtown, car-free days.
- Bikes and cars will always share the roadway. Lets make both more aware of
each other
- increase bike facilities in the downtown core
Car Drivers (75 responses)
- I would stop heavy truck traffic on Thurlow St., & I would
stop all motorcycle riding in the West End
- Cycle routes, transit route, walkways
- NOT sharing transit services with fare cheats on SkyTrain and the SeaBus
- Pedestrian overpasses at Burrard and Pacific intersection
- Dedicated bike routes (and more pedestrian malls; ground level merchants)
- Get bikes off the car streets - separate roadways for bikes
- 1. I would FIRE every planner who is naive enough to believe cycling will
ever be anything but an insignificant contributor to transit 2. I'd send every
PLANNER to Europe for 6 months to see how REAL cities work!!!!!
- 1. Free circular downtown bus 2. Protected cycle routes to connect with the
free circular, with cycle (protected)
- Non polluting vehicles only more transit vehicles non-polluting electric
i.e. street cars or light rail trains facilities to plug in electric vehicle
downtown (or should be pollution free)
- Eliminate more parking spaces along roadways, to improve flow of car traffic
- Cycle routes
- Put in more SkyTrain, get away from more and more buses on the road
- Open Granville Mall to traffic the entire length
- Activates by whatever means the Arbutus corridor
- Open up Granville Mall to all forms of transportation
- Cycle routes
- Better lighting on seawall
- Extend the SkyTrain to UBC, and airport
- An elaborate system of biking and blading pathways expansion of the Heritage
Trolley System like the Castro district in San Francisco
- Bike only routes vehicle only routes - NO BIKES
- Downtown subway(SkyTrain)
- West Coast Express type service running all day. street car loop of downtown
science world to Chinatown to Gastown to Cambie place to False Creek (on
Granville) to Science world.
- Cycle paths off road
- Improved transit more routes more buses per route faster times express
routes and lanes
- More direct buses to the north shore and other suburbs not linked by
SkyTrain
- Prohibit parking on major arteries e.g. Granville, Oak etc Make Granville
one way in one direction and Oak one-way in opposite direction
- BAN ALL LEFT TURNS!!!!
- Reduce traffic by providing a convenient transit system which would alter
commuting from west and south Vancouver to downtown core. Current system is
useless Cannot commute from west Vancouver to SFU
- Remove most/all on street parking use curb side for loading transit
bicycles, anything but parking sorry about the lost revenue but......
- Experiment with all red pedestrian only traffic signal cycle, to facilitate
more fluid movement of turning traffic at intersection
- It would be nice if transit started earlier or was almost a 24hr service,
parking meters are never accurate when feeding change they all give different
amounts of time we should have a separate cycling lane at all times and routes
- have a by-pass highway! ft's dangerous and nerve racking for both drivers
and pedestrians to be mixing on roads built to accommodate traffic 50 or more
years ago
- synchronize traffic lights to speed traffic flow and reduce standing and
emissions
- Have better bus service and better connections onto buses that you transfer
to
- Get rid of the Trolley buses and use others that are more flexible and can
go around corners and cross intersections. Also ensure that the roads are
repaired especially after you have completed any road work. The City's roads
are disgraceful.
- Improve pedestrian traffic, ideally with underground connections between
buildings
- I would develop more one-way streets and more advanced left turns.
- Do not allow construction that shuts down three of four lanes on Seymour
during rush hour.
- City should stop pandering to vocal - but tiny - special interest groups,
repeatedly wrecking havoc in the interests of bicycles, walk-a-thons and
assorted misadventures.
- Increase the number of lanes on the Lions Gate bridge
- greater network of underground / above ground walkways.
- We need a safe route from the south side of false creek over the bridges and
down to the north end around Pender St. Commuting by bike from Broadway to
Pender and Burrard is very dangerous, there is no bike route and you have to
use the Burrard St bridge. I have been hit by cars on Burrard 3 times. Now if
I don't feel brave I just drive since transit is a joke.
- More, cheaper buses.
- Improve road and traffic flow through the city
- Have construction performed at night, late evenings, or early mornings (i.e.
Calgary!!!) so not to obstruct rush-hour traffic during the day!
- Add a dedicated cycle route access to the downtown core.
- Synchronize all the lights so that at 50 to 60 kilometres you can get
through all the lights on green.
- Have a freeway that actually enters the downtown core, not exit 20-30
minutes away
- Add more cycle routes.
- Safe walking paths LIGHTED north east side of False Creek (Creekside Park)
to downtown library area
- a tunnel from the viaduct to the Lions Gate bridge or better, right across
to West Vancouver via tunnel
- more transit only streets in the downtown core area
- Reduced street parking on major corridors - i.e. no parking from 2pm to 8pm
to accommodate flex-time workers who now leave early in the after noon or
early evening, rather than no parking from 3pm to 6pm.
- improve the roads for better traffic flow
- Make the downtown core more vehicle accessible.
- vehicle congestion is too high for safe biking. exclusive bike/pedestrian
routes may not be practical yet.
- expand SkyTrain/underground to entire city THIS PERSON HAS ATTACHED A FULL
PAGE TYPED LIST OF SUGGESTIONS, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM ON THIS SURVEY TO
TYPED ALL OF THE ATTACHED RECOMMENDATIONS!!
- mark crosswalks well, too many motorists do not stop or are going too fast
D/T, to get from A to B. Make travel easier safer for pedestrians and less
convenient for motorists i.e. add roundabouts, speed bumps, one ways etc
- Safer cycle routes in the downtown core - including safer ways to get on and
off the Burrard St. bridge.
- Enhancing all of the above.
- More cycle routes that actually follow roads rather that ducking down back
alleys and making the route very indirect.
- Don't put all the bus routes on one map. Each bus route should have its own
map.
- Create more pedestrian walkways and cycle routes in downtown Vancouver
corridor that are people-friendly.
- Transit priority lanes, signal pre-emption
- Restrict left turns to only a few arterial intersections with lanes/signals.
Bike lanes. Synchronise pedestrian controlled signals with flow of traffic.
- Ban cars on certain streets and run street cars down them
- Start an urban rail service in the Arbutus Corridor out to Richmond/airport.
A traditional trolley car style train would be very popular, probably a
tourist draw (like San Francisco streetcars) and less susceptible to NIMBY
(not in my back yard)
- rapid transit to the south
- Provide a free transport zone in the down town just like Seattle.
- roadways
- A quicker connection to the Trans Canada Highway. Some sort of highway that
could connect the two. Hastings and 1st Ave are bottlenecks.
- Transit routes or shuttle bus within downtown - free of charge like that in
Calgary.
- More SkyTrain / Subways
- walkways
- parking : New construction of 20-25 story parking buildings which resemble
regular buildings from outside. Vehicles would board a platform at the
entrance similar to elevators, and are elevated to any floors with vacant
spaces. parking capacity in the city would rise substantially, street parking
can be greatly reduced, creating more road space and more pedestrian friendly
roads. The idea comes from Volkswagen parking garages for new vehicles. The
buildings are modern and made of glass, with unique multicoloured lighting
from within, introducing ambience and prestige into the downtown peninsula
rather then having large, bulky and decrepit concrete parking garages. the new
buildings would look similar to office building from outside. they can be
profitable, monitored 24 hours and provide thousands of much needed parking
spaces in a high tech, attractive and modern shells of glass, emulating the
other residential and office towers around them.
Car Passengers (16 responses)
- Open up Granville street to cars Carpool Ferry boats to English
Bay, Yaletown are great too!
- Stricter enforcement of laws to diminish the hazard of cyclists,
skate-boarders and roller bladers using roadways improperly
- What is functioning downtown, is not what you are calling downtown you must
including next busiest communities get some streetcars
- Increase cycle routes
- 1. kill the rapid bus from Richmond. 2> transit links to points along the
False Creek North seawall
- Better services around downtown/West End it take me 3 buses to get from
Point Grey to Denman Street because the buses all run in straight lines and
not around any perimeters without transferring
- Vastly increase number and frequency of buses. If a bus is "downtown
only" from the West End, it should be timed to connect with a bus to
continue the route. OR have buses every 60 seconds on a Granville, Robson,
Davie, Denman loop.
- A continuous route along False Creek to English Bay along the water
- Make it user friendly the entire system
- more designated bike lanes away for getting from Kits to Lions gate bridge
without driving through downtown (I know we should have a freeway or a tunnel)
too expensive....
- Better transit Portland style streetcar not SkyTrain
- Have the Cambie bus go down Cambie, up Robson, Denman, Davie and to Cambie.
- Cycle routes
- More left turning lights on downtown streets
- I would want pedestrian streets, for example on Robson and in Gastown
Non-Downtown residents/commuters (10 responses)
- Better signage and MAPS for bus routes mainly, but also for other
walk/cycle/etc. routes. The maps on bus shelters are more confusing than not
- More buses like 99B going into downtown
- Recreate downtown West End streetcar system ASAP with or without TransLink.
Provide this service at LOW cost, and stop saying its not possible - its both
possible and necessary. Anything to reduce internal combustion engine traffic!
- Improve walkways - resurfacing of well-used streets e.g. Davie, Denman (very
uneven very run down)
- Build/improve cycle routes
- I don't own a car
- More walkways (But limiting our responses to one (1) BIASES this response)
Would also like to see PET companions permitted on public transit - this would
be fairer to pet-owners, and a 'humanistic' benefit to all riders. (I do not
own a pet, but do not approve of species-intolerance) (Why is this all 'to
WORK'; many bus travellers are retired or students, but use just as
regularly!)
- Bike lanes leading into and through the downtown
- More bike lanes.
- Extensive cycle routes with light corrugated plastic roofs to keep the rain
out.
Transit Riders (99 responses)
- Start a transit link (bus or light rail) from the downtown to the
airport with no need to transfer several times as is not the case.
- Fewer cars in residential West End. No car by choice.
- Cycling infrastructure
- #8 Fraser - to Marine at Fraser via Hastings, Richards to Robson. Then along
Robson to Cambie, over the Cambie Street bridge to Broadway. The turning left
on Broadway to Fraser Street.
- Walkways (pedestrian security)
- One resounding demand: How about more buses in the Van. area? Is this hard
to figure out? Vancouver has the most pathetic transportation system
imaginable, and it's no wonder there are so many cars, but no changes are ever
made. Instead of worrying solely about bike access, pets, roads, and
connections to the suburbs, why are no plans made to INCREASE the number of
buses in the Van. area? The 41st bus is a nightmare to ride. Packed daily.
Full anytime of day. Also, buses should NOT wait at certain stops and leave at
certain times. It is such a WASTE OF TIME! Buses could run more often, every 5
- 10 min. of day or 15 - 20 at night. Van. must have been planned by a bunch
of retards.
- 1. Green Streets, NELSON to Bute to Comox to Helmcken 2. Close Stanley Park
exit to Nelson St. 3. Stop bridge to bridge traffic on Nelson 4. Better use
Alberni, Robson, and Davie 5. END north bound traffic on Granville at Davie
NOT Smithe 2.
- Go back to 'X' at Granville and Hastings. This way of crossing was great
- Give transit priority - get rid of the motor parking on many of the street
Provide a 'circular' bus to get around downtown
- Downtown peninsula should be a transit zone by itself with a cheaper fare
- SkyTrain loop of downtown peninsula with stops at Denman and Robson, Denman
and Davie, Burrard and Pacific - circle joining waterfront and stadium
stations
- Have express buses (i.e. Stanley Park) pick up passenger at certain stops
(Hastings / Renfrew) and bring them to downtown core-they are always way to
empty - lots of room
- Put a cycling lane along Granville Street
- Make bus lanes; make a bus loop in downtown (free) improve traffic signals;
give transit signal pre-exemption
- Provide a free shuttle throughout downtown, Yaletown, West End, Gastown
(i.e.. like Seattle). Make it VERY COSTLY to own/drive a car in Greater
Vancouver
- Remove car access to the downtown core and the West End and make transit
free as a result
- Add transit service along Nelson and Smithe from False Creek to Stanley Park
- Fine the way it is but more buses more often needed
- Make sure there is a hand-hold near seniors seating for them to use when
they stand to get off the bus. The straps are too high and too unsteady Don't
own a car
- Increase number of buses during rush hour
- NOT TO $75 FEE INCREASE FOR VEHICLES. More police presence circulate bus
routes airport ferry from west Van for residents and visitors
- Add streetcars between key target/points of interest, possible links to
Kits? Vanier Park,, BC Place, Waterfront, Stanley Park, via Cardero Comm.
Centre. and Sunset Beach, English Bay UP TO 2nd Beach via Beach Ave. Possible
closed circuitous route in Stanley Park between 2nd and Lost Lagoon to lower
bus stop PS. I know of 2 person who would prefer to live closer or IN the
downtown if it was easier to get around. Alas, one commutes from Richmond, the
other from New Westminster
- More frequent rides to reduce crowded buses
- Increase cycle routes
- I would extend the underground portion of downtown SkyTrain system to make a
reliable and fast underground transportation system throughout downtown, akin
to that of Toronto or those of the major European cities, with the goal of
largely replacing the bus and trolley service downtown.
- Cycle Route
- Cycle routes
- Get rid of bikes until they learn the rules of the road; bikes are a hazard
to both vehicles and pedestrians
- Less cars in the downtown Vancouver area
- Free buses in the downtown core (like in Portland Ore.) Granville &
Burrard/Chinatown/Main & Hastings to Burrard Bridge
- To have a circular SkyTrain go around the downtown. Remember, the downtown's
home to the densest residential population in any North America city's
downtown along with Manhattan. Downtown has a business core, and is a
tourist-oriented centre with cruise ships, Robson Street, hotels, and etc. all
apart of the mix.
- I would convert several of the streets into walkways, bikeways and/or
transit malls, such as Hornby, Richards (or Homer) and Hamilton north to south
(likely keeping Granville Mall) and Robson or Davie and Water Streets east to
west, for the purposes of a cleaner urban environment and pedestrian/cyclist
safety.
- More bike lanes routes
- Cycle routes
- Get rid of gasoline autos and motorcycles, use more electric buses AIR
POLLUTION is a MAJOR PROBLEM in all of Vancouver which must be dealt with when
dealing with transportation revisions.
- Davie street bus, Denman to Pacific - short, fast, frequent service, same
for Robson street
- provide large parking areas outside the downtown peninsula and low fares or
free exclusive transit within the downtown area. Increased charges (tolls) for
cars going downtown
- Enforce no parking zone between 6am - 10am and 3pm - 7pm on major streets,
make Granville a highway and build parking lots for the store area
- More car free areas for safer walking/biking
- Ban all private vehicles.
- Resurface streets (some are so rough you can't even ride) bus lanes it
trains are probably more efficient upholster seat in fabric rather than
plastic
- No cars downtown
- One lane for buses, more pedestrian streets
- Cycle routes It can be pretty hairy out on the road on a bike.
- Extend SkyTrain to west end
- Eliminate parking on street and use lane instead for transit, bicycles,
deliveries etc
- improve transit
- ensure lots of alternatives a allowed encouraged walking, in-line skating,
biking motorcycling, bus SkyTrain, west coast express sea bus
- SkyTrain should have paid ticket and cash payment turnstiles (more
efficient)
- Make bus fare (50 cents) to encourage people not to bring cars
- Less store infringement on streets such as coffee shop tables and chairs
unless they are properly gated off/barricaded.
- more cycle routes
- lower bus fares (or segregate cycle routes if bus fares don't count)
- free fare central zone (downtown west of Main)
- more frequent transit trips
- more frequent service and connections from 41st & west Boulevard to
Robson and Granville, should NOT take 45 min sometimes closer to an hour
because of infrequent service and missed connections
- Have underground pedestrian walk ways to avoid intersections where
pedestrians walk against DO NOT WALK signs which happens all the time
congesting traffic to the point of frustration and anger for some motorists
and I am NOT a motorist but a bus commuter.!! Also we have to have more left
turn only for vehicles to avoid congestion at crosswalks. The pedestrian is
becoming KING which is a dangerous precedent !
- Designate a part of the road for cycles. Cyclists need there own lane before
many people will consider commuting by bike. Let look to European countries
esp. Holland for ideas.
- more bicycle lanes and buses that have quieter engines. The noise form our
busses is too much....bring back more electric busses please....advice from
someone who lives on 5th avenue , Vancouver...
- Either make Granville Street a complete mall on which there is no vehicular
traffic or make it a normal street in which all sections are accessible by all
vehicle types.
- A four lane transportation route to the north shore from the west end.
- People should be able to take transit - in both directions (i.e. East &
West)from Vancouver through the Fraser Valley - conveniently morning and
night. Massive investments in transit would encourage increased use, as
transit options such as the West Coast Express, could be more comfortable and
convenient than using private autos
- better indication of where walkways can be found-more evenly distributed
walkways, cycle routes i.e. not just in posh areas
- Have the number 15 and 17 trolley lines (Cambie and Oak) go north up the 800
block of Beatty instead of the 800 block of Hamilton they would then start
their routes at the foot of Robson street at BC Place turn Cambie and Beatty
streets into two way streets
- Cycle routes!!! I haven't noticed any we need to have a couple of
north/south dedicated bike lanes stencilled with the bike symbols!!! Burrard
Street / Thurlow especially
- local service via Pender street of Hastings to Stanley Park similar to the
old 19 trolley
- more SkyTrain service during rush hours, more bus service from Burnaby
through Kingsway
- more SkyTrain runs especially during rush hours or add another train at all
hours
- teach people to be better drivers and remove horns from cars
- remove parking from one side of Robson, Denman and Davie replace trolley bus
with streetcar which operates on continuous loop that connects with SkyTrain
at Granville mall bus stops, concurrently make Abbott street one way
- Cycle routes
- remove redundant bus service i.e. buses leave downtown and terminate at
SkyTrain stations, north shore (SeaBus terminus on north shore could be
uses)etc etc
- more walkways
- Pedestrian bridges from Water St. (Gastown) to Crab park.
- More cycle lanes/routes, also, specifically designated streets for heavy
trucks driving through the city. For example: Fir Street is much to small a
street to accommodate large trucks & buses of any kind, most cities
restrict large vehicle traffic to main thoroughfares, Granville Street, Oak St
to 41st Ave., Cambie, Main Street & Knight St to name a few, not secondary
streets or avenues such as Fir St, Arbutus St, Macdonald St, Alma/Dunbar etc.
This policy should be City wide east, west, north & south.
- More walkways
- Roadways for dedicated traffic, dedicated streets for transit only
- More buses more often to alleviate over-crowded buses and long waits with no
seating or cover at stops.
- Make the # 1 bus travel in both directions down Pacific Blvd.
- Add real bike lanes, i.e. "bike only" lanes.
- Route a bus from 4th Avenue into Downtown, using "Burrard". Same
on return.
- set-up a SkyTrain system for the downtown area.
- More user friendly transit system, parking restrictions or bus lanes to
increase flow of buses
- Have one street in each direction(north-south, east-west) be dedicated to
through traffic. Some sort of a highway. This would ease up a lot of
congestion, especially people in a hurry. Many implications, though
- Less car access, reduced parking lots, more encouragement for commuters to
use transit.
- Link downtown with the airport via SkyTrain.
- more downtown SAFE bike route lanes. The system is good outside the downtown
area- just need a safe route with a bike lane in the heart of the city.
- I think that a traffic light control system should be installed along the
Granville mall, like the one purposed for the #98 B-line. I find that the
busses spend a lot of there trip down Granville waiting a lights. It seems
that priority should be given to the busses.
- Provide for free or reduced fare travel within the Downtown Peninsula and
greater facilitation of pedestrians (wider sidewalks, automatic pedestrian
signals, narrowed streets, bulged corners etc.
- Replace the existing transit line 5 and 6 with Euro-style, low-floor tram
with an extension to Yaletown and the Concord Pacific development.
- walkways and cycle routes (not on the back streets)
- I would put in some sort of Community friendly circular light rail system
that would make easy and convenient connections with all major regions of the
downtown peninsula. As it is most of the time I'm downtown I walk wherever I'm
going as the buses are slow and inconvenient. In the winter and all year for
the young and elderly it's not really doable.
- prohibit any on-street parking during the rush hours.
- I would like to see a higher density of streets in the Downtown peninsula.
For example, back alleys should be reconstructed so pedestrians can use them
(new pavement, curbs, sidewalks etc.) and buildings should be allowed to build
new entrances from alleys which would be in effect new paths for pedestrians.
More streets (not necessarily for cars) means more routes for pedestrians, and
higher concentrations of uses (shops/housing etc. using the fronts AND backs
of buildings). New developments should also be required to incorporate
landscaped public pathways into their designs. The problem of deliveries to
buildings from back lanes could be solved by converting existing parking
spaces to loading zones and encouraging night time deliveries. Also, I think
that new streets allowing commercial traffic only would not necessarily have
to be uninviting to pedestrians.
- Put in more walkways and cycle routes that interconnect. Pedestrianization
is very popular in many countries and good for countering car excesses.
- Have a dedicated, extensive, and safe bicycle commuting path.
- More pedestrian & cyclist-only areas and bus-only streets.
- There is not enough transit routes, and running times are not regular enough
- Put trams in Downtown area
Pedestrians (74 responses)
- More frequent public transit. We live in West End and walk
everywhere within reason. We live in West End and do not own a car.
- Increase frequency of SeaBus service by adding a third ferry. This will
relieve congestion on both bridges
- Keep bikes off sidewalks
- Repave bike/in-line skate routes around Stanley Park and Seawall ... Too
gravelly for blading on, need to be smoother I don't have a car
- During working week: Some busses that leave at Davie & Denman, &
Davie & Denman (to Robson St.) - #'s 6 & 5 - which will then go to
Cambie and West Broadway (accessing all the medical buildings) to Oak and also
VGH, and then up Oak to the Women's & Children's Hospital. Seniors and
sick people then won't have to transfer.
- Add bike racks to busses travelling north and south within the city
- BENCHES - at every bus stop - e.g.. Cambie #15 bus stop on Robson just south
of Granville needs one - I think the stop on the north side (same bus, same
route heading south) needs bench as well
- Dedicated bike lanes (to include roller bladers and skateboarders and
standing scooters)
- Get rid of roundabouts i.e. Haro & Jervis drivers do not understand how
to use them, dangerous crossing for pedestrians
- Reduce vehicle traffic speed
- Make Gastown (Water Street for Carrall to Seymour) car free, except for
taxis and delivery vehicles A couple more comments: 1. GASTOWN. I would like
to see cars banned from Water St. In the morning they race through like they
are on a highway and don't stop at crossings. I would like to see Tour Buses
park outside of Water St. (Carrall to Seymour). It is the worst pollution
while you're eating lunch and the dirt they create and the NOISE. It was so
great the other day when the Jazz Festival closed the streets!
- Remove main road parking and use lane for buses and cycles only Make
cyclists behave as though on a small motorcycle. They will gain respect from
motorists. They act like pedestrians on wheels No car since 1976, cycled 1965
- 82 from Kerrisdale to Capilano
- Beach Ave. and Stanley Park - car free zones. The park keeps people sane
I've never owned a car, and am proud of this
- Increase cycle routes and space to ensure there are more sturdy bike racks
around the city - do this at the expense of cars Higher taxes, less road
space, more traffic tickets, more bikers 2.
- Make Robson Street a walling mall. Like K Street in Sacramento, Calif., or
downtown Schweindurt, Germany. Making Water Street a walking mall
- Make SkyTrain free from Main St. station to the Canada Place station. And:
another bus for Chinatown that goes down Great Northern Way!
- Introduce streetcars running along Robson and Burrard Street from one end to
the other thus serving all four corners of the downtown peninsula
- #22 Route to have a loop downtown so it is more regular. 41 - Macdonald
& Knight is too long. Sunday am - 15 min. not 1/2 hour interval
- Improve principal road access to BRIDGES Separate private vehicles from
Transit & Bicycles on feeders to BRIDGES Curb lane on bridges and cycles
only (strict bridge speed for motor cycles)
- Clean up Granville from Drake to Robson
- Better bus connections (time wise)
- Make bicycle-riding easier and safer
- No stop over at Denman and Davie for transit operators it is a short run
anyway operators can have their 15 min break at the end Robson & Cambie at
Hastings
- 50% less bus stops. If you can't walk a block or two - take the HandyDART
- Make the Granville Mall from Nelson to Pender for pedestrians only No buses
taxis etc
- Free trolleys for downtown circuits, combined bike and pedestrian walkways
(like Pacific Blvd./Yaletown area). No cars in Gastown. Open Woodwards parkade
on Cordova. Rickshaws in the summer.
- Cars/motorcycles/trucks should be banned from downtown. Only buses should be
allowed. Alternatively - no parking should be allowed after 7:00 p.m.. I have
no car
- Transit lanes for buses only
- Cycle routes including mopeds, and all small motorized or pedal vehicles. NO
CARS VANS except for deliveries, taxis buses.
- As far as I am concerned Cambie St. is too polluted due to tour buses,
cement trucks, dump trucks, etc. etc. Remove either tour buses, which tend to
park bet. 21 & 18th quite a lot
- Remove bridge to bridge traffic from Denman and Beach
- Make Powell Street at least SLIGHTLY bicycle friendly: the street is crowded
and for some reason drivers don't extend even the minimal courtesy - and the
sidewalks are horrendous!! The point I'm trying to make here is that there is
something about Powell St. that seems to make ordinary drivers forget their
manners and obligations to others: something about being on the 'bad' side of
town? Where ordinary rules don't apply? (I picked this up on my way into the
VIA rail station and I filled it out on a moving train - which accounts for
the messy writing and the out of town postmark) I use my car to transport
goods and family members
- False Creek ferries/AquaBuses to be part of TransLink system so transfers
could be used
- Use the Arbutus corridor for rapid transit
- This is what we have learned to expect from the current city government when
it comes to public consultation and this is you will do what you like
regardless of what the public tell you. There have been too many planning
issues where the city has ignored the objections of the neighbourhood for us
now to believe that somehow public consultation is anything more than just a
smokescreen for the pre-determined agenda
- On previous submission I did not put comments in I am submitting comments
now: Subway under Granville Street connecting to south (airport / Richmond)
west & North Shore
- The roadways
- Cycle routes (Pender street scheme unsatisfactory)
- I would shorten the wait for the 50 False Creek South/waterfront Station,
from half an hour to 15 min, after evening and on weekends. It is a busy
tourist bus and should run more often
- More transit routes cycle routes, more frequency
- Connect the Millennium link to the SeaBus as well as connecting to the
Planetarium and the Arbutus corridor with some kind of transit connection to
the airport...I am impressed with the San Francisco heritage trolley system
can Vancouver have the same kind of tourist attraction????
- Increase the number of cycle routes and improve existing cycle routes
- Dedicated cycle routes
- Buses only lane,(so the buses can move quicker and be on time) waiting from
5 minutes to 20 minutes in the rush hour when buses are missed
- Have different size buses as ridership demands warrants keep same # of
drivers
- Streetcars with extension along existing rail lines e.g. Arbutus Vancouver
east, Fraser river
- More warm hearted bus drivers, some are okay, but MOST are rude, ill
mannered louts -they seem to be unhappy people!!!!!
- Relocate INDY and convert asphalt area between Quebec St Pacific Blvd BC
Place, and False Creek (N bank) to park
- Add more walkways
- Limit the number of cars going into the downtown some provisions being made
for those who live in the downtown and west end
- make downtown car free
- Build an extension of the SkyTrain from Waterfront station, elevate to Lions
Gate Bridge height to high level crossing over first narrow parallel existing
bridge to a North Shore terminal. Leave the existing bridge and approaches
undisturbed and maintained by imposition of tolls to defray maintenance. NOTE:
all other hitherto advanced proposals to "bridge problem" (a)
increase the flow of single occupant vehicle (b) increase congestion the city
(c) adversely impact on Stanley Park, pollution environment, air and marine
traffic through Burrard Inlet
- A subway from downtown and out the Arbutus Corridor to Richmond then
SkyTrain through Central Richmond with spurs to YVR and Steveston, then over
the Fraser and subway down Cambie to downtown
- Extend the streetcar along the west side of Quebec Street using the sidewalk
as a platform
- Have a free bus in the downtown core; the downtown core would be closed to
traffic one Sunday a month (Paris does it) cars would not be allowed in
Stanley Park on weekends (New York does it) buses would be moved to other
streets instead of mostly on Granville
- Fewer cars
- more pedestrian crosswalk on busy streets
- that pedestrian safety be the number one concern for the City's engineering
dept-and not just on paper!!! no more car capacity downtown- LESS
- Extend the Granville Island to Ontario Trolley line to Science World and
water front station
- Proper cycle routes w/o car/bus traffic
- having larger buses where the buses get crowded and having smaller buses
where there are fewer passengers
- I would make a transit route going in a figure-8 along Denman, Davie,
Granville, Water, Powell, Main, Pender, Beatty, Pacific, Davie again to
Granville, and from Granville along Robson to Denman. This could also be
divided into a West Loop and a East Loop with Granville as the divider. In the
future this could become a streetcar route. This would act as a downtown
people mover and a convenient, reliable, and tourist friendly mode of
transportation.
- eliminate cycle routes ban bicycles in city limits
- Better information at but stops re routes - maps etc
- increase the frequency of buses through the West End
- Dedicated cycle and pedestrian street system connecting the downtown
business area with residential areas.
- Definitely, cycle paths - this must be the only city in the world of this
size and climate without proper cycling facilities.
- Re-open Granville Street to vehicle traffic and parking. There is no reason
that Granville Street shouldn't have the same energy as Robson.
- Change the routing of the #15 and #17 public bus lines so they both come
north from Smithe street up the 800 block of Beatty Street to Robson; instead
of coming north up the 800 block of Hamilton Street which they currently do.
In this way they would tie in more closely with BC Place, GM Place and
TransLink's Stadium Station. This would also help to make plans for a high
tech commercial office area just south of BC Place more workable.
- Improve public transit within the peninsula, particularly between the West
End, Yaletown, and the CBD.
- Simplify the downtown bus routes
- subway system
- Additional fixed rail systems running from 16th and Granville to Waterfront
station and a line running around the downtown core. Roughly starting on
Pacific - up Davie down Denman down Robson or Georgia around the stadiums and
back on to Pacific.
- Have streetcars on Hastings Street.