bicycle highway
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Proposal for a hanging cycling bridge along a planning bicycle highway paralleling the Expo SkyTrain line in Metro Vancouver - Kevin Jingyi Zhang - www.kjzhang.comTRANSCRIPT
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THE BICYCLE HIGHWAY kick-starting sustainable transportation kevin zhang
50% 40% $3.0m 2% increase in population by 2040 in metro vancouver
percentage of total GHGemitted by automobiles
$5,000 annual budget for bicycle
infrastructureindividual annual savings
if driving replaced with walking or biking
percentage of trips via
5kmmaximum distance
travelled for half of all trips
800kmtotal length of bike facilities in metro
vancouver
current bike network + proposal intensity 1:100,000nlow nmedium nhigh
nlow intensity situation 1:75
1 kingsway bridge perspective
plan + route diagrams 1:2,000
skytrainave speed: 70km/hrtrack density: 100ppl/kmexit every: 3000moperation hrs: 19hrs/day
bicycle highwayave speed: 20km/hrtrack density: 600ppl/kmexit every: 0-60moperation hrs: 24hrs/day
bc parkwayave speed: 5km/hrtrack density: infiniteexit every: 0moperation hrs: 24hrs/day
2 telus-skytrain connection 3 boundary bridge perspective
nmedium intensity situation 1:75 nhigh intensity situation 1:75
commercialave size: 1600sqft
attached to bike highwayencourage vertical travel
residentialave size: 800sqft
attached to bc parkwayencourage cross corridor
movement
bicycle station section 1:50 bicycle station plan 1:50
4 bicycle station + development
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