City of Vancouver wants to close Point Grey Road, a secondary arterial road, to car commuters and turn it into a bike lane and local access road for local residents. City Hall has put forward two choices: a complete closure or reducing this route to one-way traffic only. A link below provides you with an opportunity to tell Vancouver City Hall that you want Point Grey Road Open To All Commuters. Point Grey Road facts: - 10,000 commuters use this road every day, in every season - There are over 2.5 million car commuter trips each year on PGR - PGR is an arterial route connecting North Shore with UBC - 40% of traffic is from Metro Vancouver not Vancouver itself - ICBC reports no cycling accidents on PGR since 2008 - down the road from PGR, on Burrard Bridge only 5% of commuters are cycling - those figures are unchanged since at least 2009 - Macdonald Street cannot support additional traffic and bus route demands with a single-lane bottleneck at PGR - There is an existing designated bike route on 3rd Avenue - 1st and 2nd Avenues can accommodate cyclists as well Where City Hall failed: - did not establish cycling demand by counting cyclists along that route - did not provide details on how many cars could be reasonably expected to be able to turn left from 4th Ave to Macdonald St - did not get the support of Macdonald St Residents - compared Macdonald St with its bottleneck at PGR to 33rd Ave - did not consider neighbouring communities in Metro Vancouver