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Mayor's
Preface
Summary
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[1] Transportation
Issues
[2] Fundamentals
of
the Plan
[3] Principals,
Policies
and Priorities
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[3] Principles, Policies and Priorities
[3.1] Policy Context
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Livable Region Strategy and the Regional Transportation
Plan
The regional land use and transportation policies (adopted by Council
in 1994 and 1995), provide the essential framework for transportation
planning in the city. Regional policies include:
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Managing land use in the region to establish a more compact urban
form and complete communities to minimise travel times.
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Applying transportation demand management (TDM), to change the behaviour
of travelers in order to make better use of the existing transportation
system.
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Adjusting transport service levels, including speed, convenience,
frequency of service, and comfort. This can mean among other things
allowing congestion to increase for single occupancy vehicles, in
part to ensure TDM measures are more effective.
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Supplying transport capacity, including better transit service in
dense urban areas, providing special facilities for high occupancy
vehicles (HOVs), using bridges and tunnel capacity as a way of limiting
use of single occupancy vehicles, and limiting single occupant, long-haul
commuting from the valley towns.
The implications of these GVRD policies for Vancouver are for regional
travel to the city to be more dependent on transit, and to set a practical
limit to the number of cars which can enter the city during peak periods.
Regional access roads to the city are currently operating at close to
capacity at peak. Without additional bridge and freeway capacity, the
increase in peak trips to the city will need to be accommodated by transit
and car pooling.
CityPlan Directions
In 1995 City Council adopted CityPlan as its vision for the future of
the city. CityPlan reasserts the broad regional objective of placing a
greater emphasis on transit, walking and biking, within and between neighbourhood
centres and the Downtown. In part this is to be achieved by making better
use of the existing system for moving people and goods. The transportation
directions in CityPlan are:
In order to achieve the transportation directions the City will support:
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increased transit use into and within the city by improving existing
transit service, using smaller buses, innovative services, and implementing
new rapid transit lines;
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the discouragement of car use by charging car users a larger share
of their costs through user fees such as bridge tolls, gas taxes,
increased parking rates, or commuter levies.
In its own policies and actions the City will:
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promote walking and cycling by providing better pedestrian and bicycle
connections to neighbourhood centres, planning neighbourhood centres
for pedestrians and providing more facilities for bicycles;
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make better use of existing streets for bikes, buses, goods movement,
and carpools; and
- encourage land use that reduces the demand for travel by creating
neighbourhood centres, focusing more jobs in these centres, protecting
industrial land, and continuing to develop new residential neighbourhoods
planned for Downtown.
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