Mayor Sim and his ABC councilors have just voted to remove part of the Beach Ave Protected Bike Lane to add a lane of traffic to Beach Avenue. To do this they are planning to pave over 1000 sq meters of scarce West End green space for a new one 

Based the City of Vancouver’s 2020 Climate Emergency Plan the city is supposed to reallocate 11% of road space from cars to other uses like: parklets, patios, bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, and storm water holding ponds, this is the antithesis of that plan.  It will make the West End more noisy and polluted, and less safe and less livable.

We fear that  ABC Vancouver will once again use funds allocated for Permanent Bike Infrastructure to cover the cost of converting Beach Avenue to automobile traffic.  

When ABC Vancouver removed the bike lane from Stanley Park they used $400,000  of funds from the Permanent Bike Infrastructure Budget to rip out that bike lane. This is a travesty when there are so many demands on this budget for safety upgrades to the existing local street bikeways. 

There is a lunch hour protest planned at City Hall on Friday at 12:30 against this plan, if you can't make it, please spread the word and share this petition again.