The West End Residents Association didn't win at City Council on the issue of progressive traffic calming measures at the corner of Denman and Comox (see my entry for July 15). Instead, City Council went along with their engineering department's recommendation for a pedestrian-activated traffic light at that particular intersection.
However, Council did add a rider to the motion approving the trafffic light; that engineering work on traffic calming measures for Denman. Now it's up to us to push the engineering department on that issue, to ensure that this resolution isn't forgotten.
Denman is a busy street with many uses. People use it to get to Stanley Park and to English Bay. Drivers use it as a shortcut to Georgia Street and the Lions Gate Bridge. It's a heavily used pedestrian thoroughfare and is also a shopping destination in its own right, with many small, independently owned stores. Lately, the through traffic seems to be taking over and pedestrians have a difficult time, what with the heavy vehicle traffic.
And now we have some legal clout to mitigate that.
Posted by wetcoast at August 2, 2003 03:31 PM