Vancouver Civic Election 2022

[Migrant_Coconut]

I still say there's room for two lanes and a bike lane.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Agreed. Making it permanent after 2 years is a right move.

The temporary bike lane is being removed in the Fall.

The situation will be studied and a plan for "Going forward, the board will look at “areas where we can provide a protected permanent bike lane so that cyclists who choose to use the interior bike route will be able to have areas where they will have that protection,”

[EastVanMark]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

I still say there's room for two lanes and a bike lane.

Absolutely. More than enough room. But that takes some foresight and common sense and that hasn’t been the case at 12th & Cambie for a long time now

[EastVanMark]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Glad to see ABC also bringing some rationality back to Stanley Park:

Changes to Stanley Park bike lane, booze on beaches: ABC park board lays out priorities
By Simon Little Global News
Posted October 17, 2022

Vancouver’s incoming park commissioners are laying out priorities for the next four years, after a contentious election that saw Ken Sim’s ABC party virtually sweep the city’s park board with a dominant majority.

After initially promising to eliminate the Vancouver Park Board, Sim reversed course this summer and nominated a slate of candidates that won six of seven seats on the board. Green Tom Digby now stands as the sole opposition commissioner on the elected body.

One of ABC Vancouver’s first orders of business will be a major change to the controversial Stanley Park bike lane, commissioners told Global News, Monday...

....“At the end of the fall we’re going to remove the temporary bike lane and restore full car access to the park. But then we’re going to spend the winter to come up with an engineered solution to maintain access to both bikes and cars,” Commissioner-Elect Laura Christensen said....

.....Speaking on CKNW’s The Jill Bennett Show, Commissioner-Elect Scott Jensen said the lane removal will coincide with the arrival of winter weather, expected to result in fewer cyclists.

The plan would involve reopening vehicle access to Beach Avenue and a return to a “pre-pandemic Stanley Park configuration” over the winter....

https://globalnews.ca/news/9205037/v...rd-priorities/

Agreed.
Great to see people actually using their brains and logic to come up with reasonable solutions to issues rather than blindly following ideology at the expense of everyone else like moron parks boards and councils did previously. (Not to mention the spin doctoring when anyone pointed out how obviously flawed their plans were).
So far so good ABC, and mayor elect Sim

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

I still say there's room for two lanes and a bike lane.

Yep. Didn't they add a water line and hydrants along Park Drive a few years back? Should have incorporated the bike lane when they did that.

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by whatnext

The temporary bike lane is being removed in the Fall.

The situation will be studied and a plan for "Going forward, the board will look at “areas where we can provide a protected permanent bike lane so that cyclists who choose to use the interior bike route will be able to have areas where they will have that protection,”

Yes absolutely. The previous Park Board this summer voted to keep it temporary until the Report comes out this Spring. This new Board is following through with the Report likely to have a permanent protected bike lane.

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by EastVanMark

Absolutely. More than enough room. But that takes some foresight and common sense and that hasn’t been the case at 12th & Cambie for a long time now

You mean Beach Ave and Park Lane.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

I still say there's room for two lanes and a bike lane.

That's what ABC is proposing, and I agree.

The current bike lane is ugly and half-assed. Some parking is inaccessible and therefore abandoned permanently?

If you're going to do something, do it properly.

[jollyburger]

How do buses get through there, it seems tight in a tiny compact car.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

That's what ABC is proposing, and I agree.

The current bike lane is ugly and half-assed. Some parking is inaccessible and therefore abandoned permanently?

If you're going to do something, do it properly.

Reading the article carefully, I'd say that entering the park near the Rowing Club bikes will go back to using the seawall until they get to where Park Drive meets Pipeline Road. At that point a dedicated bike lane will be constructed to get cyclists up the hill to Prospect Point. Once they get there it doesn't seem clear.

...Going forward, the board will look at “areas where we can provide a protected permanent bike lane so that cyclists who choose to use the interior bike route will be able to have areas where they will have that protection,” he said.

“We talked a lot to cyclists, and the ongoing message that we heard was that cycling up the hill from the bottom portion of the the roadway up to Prospect Point was an area of concern where they felt that was necessary to have a divided protected lane,” he said.

He said whatever solution the board delivers will prioritize access to parking lots and the needs of businesses in the park....(bold mine)

[whatnext]

Some further breakdowns of how different areas of the city voted. This oe section clearly illustrates how badly Stewart got spanked:

..Outgoing Mayor Kennedy Stewart of the Forward Together party won 49,593 votes in 2022 — nearly the same number as the 49,705 votes he won in 2018. In contrast, Mayor-elect Sim won 85,732 votes, which represents a 76% increase from his total of 48,748 in 2018.

Sim won 51% of the total vote in 2022, and 28% in 2018. On the other hand, Stewart won 29% of the vote in 2022, and 28.7% in 2018....

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc...oods-locations

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Some further breakdowns of how different areas of the city voted. This oe section clearly illustrates how badly Stewart got spanked:

..Outgoing Mayor Kennedy Stewart of the Forward Together party won 49,593 votes in 2022 — nearly the same number as the 49,705 votes he won in 2018. In contrast, Mayor-elect Sim won 85,732 votes, which represents a 76% increase from his total of 48,748 in 2018.

Sim won 51% of the total vote in 2022, and 28% in 2018. On the other hand, Stewart won 29% of the vote in 2022, and 28.7% in 2018....

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc...oods-locations

Kennedy Stewart got the same number of votes that he got in 2018 when he (just) won. Sim increased his vote to beat him. Justin Mcelroy of the CBC has a map that shows that most of the apartment areas round the core, including the West End and DTES, voted more for Stewart, while all the ground oriented areas preferred Sim.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Changing City

Kennedy Stewart got the same number of votes that he got in 2018 when he (just) won. Sim increased his vote to beat him. Justin Mcelroy of the CBC has a map that shows that most of the apartment areas round the core, including the West End and DTES, voted more for Stewart, while all the ground oriented areas preferred Sim.

Sim increased his votes by a huge amount, even with the fact that he was facing at least three other mayoral candidates from the centre-right. Multifamily areas like Downtown South, Yaletown end even Crosstown went for Sim.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Sim increased his votes by a huge amount, even with the fact that he was facing at least three other mayoral candidates from the centre-right. Multifamily areas like Downtown South, Yaletown end even Crosstown went for Sim.

Sim won Yaletown and Coal Harbour in 2018, and in 2018 Shauna Sylvester won Kitsilano, some of Mount Pleasant and south False Creek. Stewart won much more in the SFD areas on the eastside, south of 16th - Sim took those this time. TEAM and the NDP were so toxic that most right leaning voters switched to Sim. Stewart probably lost some voters to Sim, but picked up some who in 2018 voted for Sylvester. And of course, the electorate has changed in four years, and turnout was down as a proportion of the electorate, so apathy actually won the election (again).

[Migrant_Coconut]

'Bout time.

Surrey's Doug McCallum won't seek recount after election loss to Brenda Locke

It appears the mayor’s race in Surrey will not be settled in a courtroom after all.

According to a statement from Doug McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition, the incumbent will “no longer pursue a judicial recount” after his legal advisors reviewed the local Elections Act...

... McCallum had conceded the race that night. However, he walked back that concession a day later...

Link

[Jimbo604]

Out with the old mayor and council, in with the new, with a super majority.

Inaugural Vancouver Council tomorrow at 5pm

Meeting Agenda

[Jimbo604]

CBC Ken Sim sworn in as mayor of Vancouver Nov 07, 2022 12:57 PM PT


City updated a bit of its city government web page web page and then went home. Finish later?

[trofirhen]

Housing affordability and availability, plus enhanced public safety seem the two-pronged emphasis of Mayor Ken Sim. I wish him well, and hope he can 'turn things around' for the city.

[Migrant_Coconut]

Disturbing, if true. Guess that $20 million is harder to find than ABC thought it would be?

Ken Sim is asking VPL if they've looked into revenue generating opportunities. Uh... he's suggesting charging for basic library services. #vanpoli

[chowhou]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Disturbing, if true. Guess that $20 million is harder to find than ABC thought it would be?

I saw this /r/vancouver thread and I was disturbed. Being a responsible adult, however, I decided to do my research and check the primary source instead of trusting a random anti-Sim Twitter user.

Here is the council meeting where it elapsed

The chair of the VPL board (starts talking at 1:24:50PM) asked for funding to train social workers in libraries for de-escalation support to the amount of $100,000. Ken Sim asked his question at 1:39:20PM here.

My question to you is, have you looked at potential revenue opportunities in the Vancouver Public Library system that helps[sic] fund some of the great work you want to do and I'll give you an example: I had the honour of touring the Long Beach, California library and it's absolutely amazing and they celebrate STEM and they have 3D printers and they have art shops there and I was thinking - How many libraries do we have again? 17? (someone else answers 21) 21, okay - so if we created a situation where we could get minimal revenue from each one, like less than five hundred dollars a month, that would actually generate a hundred thousand dollars in revenue that would fund the training and de-escalation so we can still achieve all of our social goals and have it accessible to everyone and with that small revenue opportunity we can make them even better. Have you guys looked at that at all or is there some resistance to do that?

The chief librarian and CEO then answered that they already generate revenue through meeting room rentals and some research fees, but they are limited by the Library Act on what they can charge for.

What a dishonest representation of what he asked.

I didn't bother posting anything in that thread because it's fucking /r/vancouver and I knew the hivemind has no problems downvoting reality into oblivion but it's pretty gross what gets echoed through the chamber. Hate the guy all you won't, attack the fact he brushed off additional funding, but it takes a special kind of disgusting person to lie about what he said and attack him over it.