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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Study Trip Vancouver BC June 2013
Who was part of the trip?Four cities: Seattle, Kirkland,
Portland, Vancouver
Jerry Dobrovolny, Vancouver's Director
of Transportation Services, attended
most sharing sessions
PBOT’s Mark Lear & Greg Raisman
Gordon Price, Simon Fraser University& Vancouver City Council emeritus
Vancouver staff, consultants, and non-profitsWere generous with their time
Professor John Pucher
Why Vancouver?
What is a connected AAA* network?*All Ages & Abilities
Waterfront has wide, separated bicycle and pedestrian pathways
Greenway uses street end park as a connector
Residential greenways
Priority streets for people who walk & bike: stop signs, speed humps, trees
Beautiful effective traffic diversion in neighborhoods
Many greenways include “counter-flow” lanes for people on bikes
Bicycle signal to cross busy arterials
Parallel Park program uses street right-of-way for retail
Vancouver Greenways prioritize people who walk.
Downtown separated bikeways
Prioritization& Cost
Inexpensive plasticsigns and PVC posts
Inexpensive and effective bicycle separation
Vancouver street calms traffic, creates beautiful public space, and diverts storm water in the right-of-way
Bioswales along greenways add beauty and high installation/maintenance costs
Recent greenway development includes finely-grained details @$3 million/mile
Vancouver Greenest City 2020
The best transportation plan is a great land-use plan. Brent Toderian, Former Director, Vancouver City Planning
Two greenways are connected through an engineered pocket park
Community volunteers maintain hundreds of planting strip gardens like these
Vancouver traffic is calmed by many tiny pocket parks in the street right-of-way
Tupper Greenway Park creates two quiet street ends
Photos: Brice Maryman, Cathy Tuttle, Greg Raisman, Jeff Linn
2013 Study Trip organizer: Eli Goldberg
www.SeattleGreenways.orggreenways are not pipes for bikes, greenways are places for people