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Access and Circulation Background

Overview

Given the significance of the 10th Avenue Health Precinct as a regional health destination, it is important that any changes to W 10th Avenue continue to accommodate the diverse business, resident, and health service access needs, including:

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Emergency Vehicles

The following boards provide a background on access and circulation in the Health Precinct.

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There are four existing passenger and commercial loading zones along this section of W 10th Avenue. Currently, the zones vary from one to three passenger vehicle lengths. All currently have at least one space available for most of the day and a typical visit to one of these zones lasts less than seven minutes. The Eye Care Centre passenger zone experiences the highest use.

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* This proportion is only based on the period of time during the day that the corresponding zone is in effect.

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Average Daily Cycling Volumes in June

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Total Pedestrian Peak Hour Intersection Volumes

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Existing cycling volumes are based on demographic and manual intersection counts from summer 2015, which have been expanded to an average June day based on volumes recorded at a City of Vancouver permanent bike counter at 10th Ave. and Clark St.

Existing vehicle volumes are based on an average of two 24-hour periods on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday in 2015. Note that the vehicle volumes for Heather St. south of 10th Ave. are from 2012.

Existing walking volumes are based on manual intersection counts conducted over three separate time periods of the day (AM, midday, and PM) in autumn of 2014. The highest hourly volumes are shown on the map.

Existing ambulance volumes are represented as a proportion of total ambulance vehicle traffic observed December 14-18, 2015 through the use of BC Emergency Health Services GPS data.

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Existing Ambulance Access Routes

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W 10th Avenue plays an important role as one of Vancouver’s busiest East-West cycling corridors by connecting important destinations along the Broadway Corridor. In summer months bike volumes are not much lower than motor vehicle volumes.

Motor vehicle volumes in the Health Precinct are high, particularly along Ash Street.

The intersections at Heather Street and Cambie Street experience the highest peak hour walking volumes along this section of W 10th Avenue.

Ambulance access to ER is predominantly from both legs of Laurel Street and Oak Street. Currently ambulance drivers rarely access ER via Willow, Heather, Ash or Cambie Streets.

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Currently, wayfinding signage throughout the Health Precinct is not always consistent. By converting a portion of 10th Avenue to one-way operation, wayfinding will become more important.

City staff are working to develop wayfinding improvements to help support the project’s design options.

Wayfinding


There are currently approximately 3,800 parking stalls in the Health Precinct. During the busiest periods, typically 270 of these stalls are available.

There are 670 bicycle parking stalls, of which at least 112 stalls are publicly accessible. * Future parking structures are planned for VGH (Heather Commons) and BC Cancer

Research Centre.

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Existing metered parking

Existing residential permit parking

Existing off-street parking

Proposed off-street parking

Existing bicycle parking

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The 10th Avenue Health Precinct parking facilities experience high occupancy rates. All options require removal of 74 to 77 metered parking spaces from 10th Avenue - about 2% of the precinct’s parking supply.

Some residential permit parking on W 10th Avenue between Oak and Laurel Streets will also need to be removed.

Additional parking is proposed in the Health Precinct through the VGH Master Plan and BC Cancer development plans. City staff will continue to work with these and other institutions to ensure that staff and patient needs are met.

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Proposed ChangesVehicle Circulation

All three proposed design options include converting portions of W 10th Avenue to only allow one-way westbound vehicle travel between Cambie and Willow Streets. Existing two-way vehicle travel would be maintained between Oak and Willow Streets.

With the conversion of portions of 10th Avenue to one-way motor vehicle circulation, access to and from certain destinations would be impacted.

* Depending on the design option, City staff are evaluating closing Heather Street on either the north or south side of W 10th Avenue to reduce the number of intersection conflicts.

Leaving destinations on the one-way portions of W 10th Avenue by vehicle would require heading west and taking either Willow, Laurel or Oak Streets, and potentially Heather Street.

LEGENDProposed One-Way Circulation

Existing Traffic Signal

Potential Closure To Motor Vehicles

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Access to VGH Emergency by vehicle is maintained from all streets, except one leg of Heather Street. Leaving VGH Emergency would be via Oak Street, Willow Street, or either leg of Laurel Street.

Access to destinations on the one-way portions of W 10th Avenue by vehicle would be via Cambie Street and possibly Ash and Heather Streets.


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Proposed Vehicle Circulation Changes

Vehicle Access to/from Example Destinations

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