1. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways
Study Trip Vancouver BC June 2013

2. Who was part of the trip?
Four cities: Seattle, Kirkland,
Portland, Vancouver

3. Jerry Dobrovolny,
Vancouver's Director
of Transportation
Services, attended
most sharing sessions
PBOT’s Mark Lear & Greg Raisman
Gordon Price, Simon Fraser University
& Vancouver City Council emeritus
Vancouver staff, consultants, and non-profits
Were generous with their time
Professor John Pucher

4. Why Vancouver?

5. What is a connected AAA* network?
*All Ages & Abilities

7. Waterfront has wide, separated bicycle and pedestrian pathways

8. Greenway uses street end park as a connector

9. Residential greenways

10. Priority streets for people who walk & bike: stop signs, speed humps, trees

12. Beautiful effective traffic diversion in neighborhoods

13. Many greenways include “counter-flow” lanes for people on bikes

14. Bicycle signal to cross busy arterials

15. Parallel Park program uses street right-of-way for retail

16. Vancouver Greenways prioritize people who walk.

17. Downtown separated bikeways

22. Prioritization
& Cost

25. Inexpensive plastic
signs and PVC posts

26. Inexpensive and effective bicycle separation

27. Vancouver street calms traffic, creates beautiful public space, and diverts storm water in the right-of-way

28. Bioswales along greenways add beauty and high installation/maintenance costs

29. Recent greenway development includes finely-grained details @$3 million/mile

30. Vancouver Greenest City 2020
The best transportation plan is a great land-use plan.
Brent Toderian, Former Director, Vancouver City Planning

31. Two greenways are connected through an engineered pocket park

32. Community volunteers maintain hundreds of planting strip gardens like these

33. Vancouver traffic is calmed by many tiny pocket parks in the street right-of-way

34. Tupper Greenway Park creates two quiet street ends

37. Photos: Brice Maryman, Cathy Tuttle,
Greg Raisman, Jeff Linn
2013 Study Trip organizer: Eli Goldberg
www.SeattleGreenways.org
greenways are not pipes for bikes, greenways are places for people