To the editor: Re: "Mayor won't vote on Pt. Grey bike lanes," July 12.
There is no need to change traffic patterns on Point Grey Road for the benefit of cyclists. Between October and June, cyclist traffic is extremely light. In the remaining months, it is heavier, but still modest. Cyclists could easily be accommodated on the adjacent sidewalks, if necessary, and the reduced vehicular speed limit of 30 mph could be properly enforced.
Diverting vehicular traffic from Point Grey Road to nearby arteries would aggravate congestion, increase exhaust pollution, and augment the risk of pedestrian injury. Moreover, vehicular traffic in the area is poised to rise dramatically, as a result of densification due not only to the policies of Vision Vancouver, but also to major housing construction at UBC, on land newly acquired by the Musqueam Band, and on the Jericho Lands. Vision must not be allowed to become a python strangling vehicular traffic. Currently, that party has placed the city in a death-grip of congestion, squeezing tighter and tighter by increasing densification, through repudiation of zoning bylaws and reduction of the number of roads and viaducts available to vehicular traffic.
Eric Levy,
Vancouver
