16 responses so far ↓

• 1 Roger Kemble // Oct 11, 2012 at 11:48 am

  Because they have a lot more money than you do . . . Frances

• 2 Frances Bula // Oct 11, 2012 at 11:55 am

  @I guess that’s what worked for East Hastings too.

• 3 Joe Just Joe // Oct 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm

  They both act like children?

• 4 Terry m // Oct 11, 2012 at 1:18 pm

  All traffic restrictions are equal, but some are more equal than others. That’s why!

• 5 jesse // Oct 11, 2012 at 2:13 pm

  As Herr Plumber mentioned, many other areas used as de facto arterials have had their wings clipped. I can think of a few, 45th and Kerr being the most prominent in my mind.

  So it appears the major reason PGR residents are being maligned is because they happen to live on PGR and we know how “connected” they are. (Get it?)

• 6 Pamela McColl // Oct 11, 2012 at 7:09 pm

  Point Grey Road poses a unique problem, it is pedestrians, cyclists, and cars in combination that creates the safety issues. People use the street for recreation from all over the City, the parks, the beaches and it needs to be safe for everyone. Other streets that are as popular for recreational use have calming measures. This is a 25 year old problem that finally might find an answer.

• 7 Frances Bula // Oct 11, 2012 at 8:08 pm

  @Pamela. Thanks so much for joining here and welcome to the debate. For those who didn’t read my story, Pamela was one of the people living on Point Grey Road whom I quoted in my recent story.

• 8 Glissando Remmy // Oct 11, 2012 at 11:13 pm

  Thought of The Night

  “Point Grey Road… the perfect Thin Street Pilot, from one end to the other.”

  When the average speed limit on a street approaches zero, that’s not a street anymore. That’s either a parking or a housing lot.
  Why wait. Let’s get it started alright.

  What am I saying? People living on Point Grey Rd. are facing bigger problems than the rest of us… climate change, global warming, Arctic ice melting, sea level rising, all a direct threat to their waterfront livelihoods… though, none is willing to sell for a dollar and profit.
  Anyhoo, let them have cake, ahem, road.

  We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.

• 9 Raingurl // Oct 12, 2012 at 10:10 am

  We can’t really say people on Point Grey Road are getting things because they asked City Hall. Look at East Hastings and its 30 KMH speed limit…….N0 one there asked for the limit to be changed. The only problem now is when someone drives 30 KMH down E. Hastings they get a swift KICK on the car because they are going slow enough for someone to actually do damage. I saw someone jump in front of a gas guzzling (UGLY) SUV and punch the hood. I even saw a senior stick his umbrella out and puncture the door of another car. (that driver deserved it though, he cut the senior off in the crosswalk) hehe, that was actually funny when I think of it now….the driver was acting a bit elitist in a very non elitist community.

• 10 teririch // Oct 12, 2012 at 10:26 am

  @Raingurl #9

  ….. acutally Vandu and other groups petitioned the city to have the speed limit reduces on E. Hastings due to the the ‘addicts’ and others that randomly wander/dodge in front of traffic.

  They also wanted to have crossing guards set up in areas, but that idea didn’t go through.

• 11 Adam O'Neill // Oct 13, 2012 at 9:43 am

  Seems to me that Point Grey Road is a bike route and bike routes all over the city have been receiving the 30 KM/H treatment in recent years. Now all we need to do is make Prior St a bike lane and those folks will get there much wanted lower speed limit! Or, dare I say it… a return of photo radar and people will actually go 50, not 70. It works in Australia people:-)

• 12 Guest // Oct 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm

  The solution for Prior St. is to build the Malkin Connector – whether or not the viaducts stay or go. Then Prior St reverts to being just another side street.

• 13 Stephanie // Oct 13, 2012 at 6:55 pm

  Do we lose the community gardens if the Malkin Connector is built? I’ve just heard that and it concerns me.

• 14 Raingurl // Oct 18, 2012 at 3:41 pm

  @teririch // Oct 12, 2012 at 10:26 am 10

  Thanks, I did not know that. I figured it was the ambulance drivers and cops tired of scraping people off the road. Word on the street is there is going to be a crosswalk at The Balmoral connecting the Regent. How handy. LOL.

• 15 jenables // Oct 22, 2012 at 2:00 am

  You just have to drive down Malkin a few times to see what a gong show diverting the traffic would be. Its an industrial area with TONS of semi trucks backing into loading bays that already create unsafe situations (going around risks oncoming traffic you can’t see, not to mention the truck which needs to be positioned properly to the bay to unload, ALSO the other side of the park, the fact there is no sidewalk, and the community gardens. Prior is one of the few streets in strathcona that isn’t heavily traffic calmed because like it or not, you need east west connectors that are efficient to avoid more generalized gridlock and pushing traffic into residential streets, or in this case, the hypocrisy of pushing traffic into the dtes

• 16 Norman // Oct 22, 2012 at 8:48 am

  It really doesn’t matter; there won’t be any enforcement anyway. I live on a street where the speed limit was lowered to 30 (no, Point Grey Road isn’t the only one), and despite many requests, there is no enforcement whatsoever.

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