10th Avenue Corridor Project: Health Precinct

Recommendations

• Create “Hospital Zone” signage, pavement markings, and other treatments, reinforced through road user education campaigns.  
• Enhance pick-up/drop-off areas for patients, including longer raised passenger zones in front of the Eye Care Centre and Mary Pack Arthritis Centre. 
• Convert 10th Ave to one-way for vehicles between Cambie and Ash to reduce vehicle volumes on 10th Ave and maintain the tree canopy.
• Enhance accessible transit options by: 
  • Installing new bus stops for the #17 bus route at Oak St and 10th Ave 
  • Improving HandyDart and patient transfer access

Recommendation

• Improve safety and comfort for patients and other vulnerable pedestrians by installing:
  • New sidewalks
  • Shorter crossings
  • Marked crosswalks
  • Lighting

Recommendations

• Ensure convenient parking is available for patients with mobility challenges, while collaborating with health partners to improve the area’s general visitor parking.
• Allocate on-street disabled metered parking adjacent to Arthritis Centre and Eye Care Centre.
• Help Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) create a new surface parking lot at the corner of Ash St/10th Ave with accessible access to 10th Ave. 
• Continue to work with precinct partners to improve the area’s general visitor parking. 
  • We have worked closely with Vancouver Coastal Health and Blusson tenants to find interim solutions for patient parking, including maintaining some disability parking on site.
• Aid local resident access by:
  • Retaining resident permit parking and reassign the 900-block of 10th Ave, where possible.
  • Reassign this block to the Oak West Residential Parking Permit Zone. 

Recommendation

• Commit to ongoing improvements and issues resolution including establishing a 10th Avenue Health Precinct Evaluation Committee to evaluate the project’s impacts following implementation and recommend spot improvements.

The City will continue to work with VCH on access, circulation, and parking in the Health Precinct through the VGH Master Plan rezoning process.

Recommendations

• Improve alternate bike routes to allow people to bypass the Health Precinct including:
  • 14th Avenue
  • Off-Broadway bike route such as 7th Avenue
  • A new north-south route west of Oak St
• Create an environment where people of all ages and abilities feel safe and comfortable cycling by: 
  • Installing raised bike lanes on both sides of 10th Avenue
  • Improving street crossings
  • Encouraging slower cycling
• Actively promote the new routes through construction

Recommendations

• Proposed safety improvements along 10th Ave were designed to minimize the loss of street trees.
• Trees removed will be replaced with new trees. We select and plant trees based on current best practices, to avoid problems such as heaving of sidewalks and roadways.