Westside Bike Mobility Project Be Heard Vancouver Comment Summary as of 9/18/2019 Share Your Ideas  Using Daniels as a Bike Greenway could be done without anyone losing parking as the street has virtually no motor traffic and at less cost.

 Reduce the speed limit throughout Westside neighborhoods. Take the spped limit down to 20 vs 25 miles. Additional traffic enforcement in neighborhoods especially during AM rush hour.

 Make all streets West of Main one way and add bike lanes.

 Clean up/trim vegetation on the sidewalks that are currently impassable in areas of Vancouver that are not tourist attractions. St. John’s & Fourth Plain/ Mill Plain Corridors.

 No to e-scooters! Scooters do not enhance safety in any way, it’s just another way for people with disabilities to feel less safe on sidewalks and streets.

 Park & Rides connected to free rides. Parking downtown is tighter each day. There should be park and ride locations throughout Vancouver that will bring people to their destination for free.

 A safe solution for North/South travel on a bike or walking has to include safe crossings for Mill Plain, 4th Plain, 33rd and 39th. A safe crossing is a stop light. Columbia is the only street to provide stop lights on all major cross streets. Beyond that, I would find any solution that provides a safe place for bikers and walkers to be acceptable.

 Bike lanes separated from traffic to connect north-south (from bridge to NW Neighborhoods, ie. Columbia) & downtown to east side tech center.

 Pick a different road. Fruit Valley road is already used as a north to south bike path, and above burnt bridge is incredibly dangerous. Please consider a bike path on this already outdated road. It wouldn’t remove off street parking for residence, would connect low income people to other modes of transportation, and increase visibility for fruit valley, a neighborhood often forgotten in Vancouver.

 Improving Columbia St for peds & bikes, increases our health, reduces noise & air pollution, enhances property values and just makes sense! Columbia is the only street that connects to the Vancouver waterfront and the Columbia river Renaissance trail.

 Columbia is a direct route that connects 5 neighborhoods, downtown, waterfront, & bridge. We need cycling routes that are transportation features and can alleviate vehicle Westside Bike Mobility Project Be Heard Vancouver Comment Summary as of 9/18/2019 congestion. Protected bike lanes on Columbia is key- all users / abilities will benefit. It has signaled crossings at busy arterials. Daniels is too meandering and lacks signaled crossings to be the 1st route chosen.

 A Suggestion for Compromise. Dedicate one side of Columbia Street for a protected 2 way bike lane, keeping one side available for parking for the neighborhood residents. This mitigates the disproportionate burden of removing parking 24/7/365 for the people who live there. Another idea is to have street parking available overnight for residents.

 Sidewalk improvements. There's been a lot of talk about cyclists, but focusing on pedestrian mobility and safety is also very necessary. Sidewalks in some areas are a dangerous hazard. Those should be focused on as well if we are truly committing to improving all modes of transportation, and not only thinking of the waterfront and connecting to the trails further north.

 Kill the project! There isn't enough parking now. I noticed there are a lot more cyclist on the Advisory Board than anyone else.

 Consider multiple streets beyond Columbia including those streets east of Main Street for the North-South corridor. Consider multiple streets for Bike Greenways such as Daniels, Franklin, F St. Then get the word out where they are for the public to use them. If safety on Columbia is a driving factor for that street, the statistic for accidents involving bicyclists (not fatalities) were reported to be 3 ... over 3 years! (This statistic was presented in the CAC session #2.) As a cyclist, addressing the overdue street paving is an equal concern to me regarding safety. Perhaps adjustments could be made such as updating for better signs and street markings, add speed bumps north of Fourth-Plain, etc. to address the safety concerns driven by that statistic. It would also be a cheaper. We could then monitor the area over the next 5 years and then revisit as needed.

 Issue to be acknowledged is amount and speed of traffic on Columbia. Place speed bumps to reduce speed, motorists will use other routes. DO NOT REMOVE PARKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Ideas for how the CAC can get to better solutions After attending the first two CAC, here are some ideas/suggestions to improve chances for better outcomes for the committee.

Step 1: SCOPE. Clarify the objectives for the CAC in practical terms and refine the design constraints to allow for viable options to emerge. Otherwise, the process will be costly in terms of data requests and committee/pubic time and folks will be swimming in data making it tougher to align and get to consensus. Westside Bike Mobility Project Be Heard Vancouver Comment Summary as of 9/18/2019

Examples: - Is the focus beyond biking to "all modes of transportation"? (If the mandate is specific to "Bike Mobility" as in the title, spending 30+ minutes in the last session on traffic flow improvements about the removal of a left turn lane may not be the best use of working time.) - If the priority is North-South corridor access, couldn't streets east of Main Street be under consideration? - Is the timeframe under consideration immediate (next 2 years) or could changes be gradual considered to allow for more time to checkpoint/assess? - What budget/funding should be considered and how much should be factored into the recommendations/prioritization? - Do streets have to be straight through? Do they require a traffic light on the intersections of Fourth Plain and Mill Plain?

Step 2: SUCCESS CRITERIA. Agree on what would demonstrate success in measurable terms and test this with the public. There was a lot of "ifs" in terms of LTS1-LTS4 scoring for biking. Does feeling safer translate into increased utilization in the face of the costs and impacts to those who live on and around Columbia? Increased impacts on residents deserve increased scrutiny. Examples: - Decreased accident incidents - An increased volume of cyclists using the designated paths. Do we have year-round statistics to help us gauge a baseline today? - Public perception - how could this be objectively measured and could these be performed by the neighborhood associations?

Step 3: PROCESS. Clarify how the CAC will get to consensus and the end results/outputs expected. Examples: - What are the factors that will be used to evaluate viable options? - What is the minimum level of detail required when a recommendation is made? Does it consider the pros/cons and are those pros/cons consistently used across all the recommendations given? - Are multiple recommendations weighted or will we end up with a laundry list of items for the council to pick and choose from?

Westside Bike Mobility Project Be Heard Vancouver Comment Summary as of 9/18/2019 Step 4: QUALITY OF INPUT. Agree on the quality level of the facts and data used to drive solutions otherwise decisions based on the data will not hold up to public scrutiny. Context to data is everything. Summary information in distributed material needs to stand alone without having to explain them. Examples: - How is the data provided relevant / to be used? - Averages are over what time period? - When were the samples taken? - How were the measurements made? - Is there even a key to explain the tables/graphs?

 Consider multiple streets but all must have safe crossings and adequate signage

 The route shouldn't have to be limited to one street the entire way up and down, but dedicated bike lanes would be preferred. Street parking utilization is not equal up and down Columbia, etc. Safe crossings at majors streets is a must and the signage must be clear for bikers and drivers alike. Consider bike/ped bridges if cost allows.

 Complete Streets On Columbia Street From Waterfront to 45th Street. Columbia Street is the only option for a truly viable north-south complete street connecting several community parks, a dozen neighborhoods, and numerous destinations, including the waterfront and downtown. Projects to convert Columbia street into a bike friendly complete street date back more than a decade (in some cases two decades). Thus the idea is neither new, out-of-nowhere, or shocking. The counter argument about parking fails any sort of critical review as there's more than adequate parking in the corridor for both current and predicted needs. Other counter arguments against the idea are either factually flawed or downright bizarre, such as the argument that adding bike lanes would ruin the historic nature of the neighborhoods. There is simply no valid, fact- based argument against making Columbia Street a bike friendly complete street. Tell Your Story Fair Weather Bicyclist

I am what is often referred to as a "fair weather bicyclist." I'm not a hardcore commuter bicyclist. I ride my bike to work 0-3 days a week and only when the weather is not too hot, not too cold and definitely not rainy! I drive the rest of the days.

Westside Bike Mobility Project Be Heard Vancouver Comment Summary as of 9/18/2019 My commute is only from Carter Park to downtown, which is great and is one of the main reasons I live on this side of town. I've lived here for 16 years and have seen a lot of growth and a steady increase in traffic of all types on the west side in that time.

When I drive and when I ride my bike, I avoid Columbia Street because there's way too much traffic and the road condition is awful. On my bike, the sharrows don't make me feel safer. The few times I've ridden my bike on Columbia Street, cars have aggressively tailgated and passed me. I've been shouted at to "get out of the way" and generally felt unsafe, so I switched my route to Franklin and Kauffman. Less traffic, usually, and a much smoother ride.

I feel like the awful traffic on I-5 contributes to a lot of the vehicle traffic woes on the west side. When traffic congestion is bad, people peel off the interstate and use side streets through the neighborhood to get down to the I-5 on ramp near Smith Tower. They don't live in these neighborhoods, so they don't care about driving safely.

When I drive, I refuse the drive faster than 25 mph on Franklin, Kauffman and Columbia. I become a pace car. People tailgate me aggressively and even flip me off, but I don't care. If you want to drive through my neighborhood, you will do so at the speed limit if you're behind me.