Earlier this month, the Commercial Drive BIA starting distributing a bizarre and biased survey to the 750 shops, cafes, and restaurants along The Drive, under the guise that they were gauging their members’ support for a proposed protected bike lane on the historic high street. It contained a number of misleading and inaccurate statements – phrased as questions – which sparked an important and productive discussion in the community in the following days about building safer streets.
While we like to think common sense will prevail, and the merchants and residents will reach a consensus on a Commercial Drive for everyone, during that process, we watched the same fallacies come up again and again. So based on our observations of that (sometimes heated) debate, here are six paradigm shifts needed to build more livable and equitable streets in Vancouver, and in cities around the world.
Read the full list here.
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