I want to express my sincere appreciation to city manager and staff for this funding application particularly for the half million dollars for the Granville connectors I think during the UBCM in September so I asked the the minister of transportation and infrastructure Rob Fleming regarding the funding support for our Granville bridge upgrade project it was his suggestion that you know we should apply this BC active transportation grant so then I socialized with the city manager and asked for a follow-up so I really appreciate these quick actions from city staff in terms of submitting this grant application hopefully the applications goes well

I think we are all on the same page of encouraging people to leave their cars, taking public transit, biking, and walking. The question here is, do we need a bike lane on this arterial road now, especially given the fact that a well-structured bike lane already exists on 10th and 7th? It's not like 10 blocks away.

When we make a wrong decision now that we regret in the future, it costs too much if we have to undo the bike lane and bear with the impact. So I think option one will be done in a way that allows future bike lanes. Once the timing, planning, traffic evaluation, and funding are properly in place.

So in fact, as what the staff mentioned yesterday, this is what St. Denis Street in Montreal did. So, you know, also I want to mention that I'm really keen to support the creative and the bold idea of this three lane option. So I support a pilot project with a bike lane available on the street first.