Bicycling part of plan just one piece of broad transportation, livability vision
By Andy Matarrese, Columbian
environment and transportation reporter
Published: February 20, 2019, 6:00am
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A cyclist navigates through traffic in downtown Vancouver in late 2018. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)
Planned bike lanes up and down Columbia Street are part of the city’s larger Westside Mobility Strategy, a larger-scale city initiative meant to accommodate more means of transportation while balancing business interests and livability.
The broader strategy seeks to address traffic planning in much of town west of Interstate 5, and work to reconcile how the walker and horse rider planning of the older city gave way to the car-centric ethos of many American suburban areas, the city says.
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