FACT: The 4th Plain 4 BRT grass roots group turned in a petition with 250 signatures supporting this project.
At the March C-TRAN Board meeting, we turned in a a petition signed by over 250 bus users, businesses, and residents along the corridor requesting C-TRAN move this project forward. Contrary to other recent petitioning you may have heard about, our signatures were gathered by a completely volunteer group. No one got paid to collect signatures. If 250 people are willing to take the time to sign a petition to move this project forward, doesn't that show support?
Even David Madore, who is trying every trick in Snidely Whiplash's bag of backhanded tricks to kill this project, stated at the Board meeting: "I understand there has been much support voiced for this project..."
FACT: The Fourth Plain Corridor absolutely wants BRT to revitalize our community.
Community workshops hosted by The Fourth Plain Merchants Association, and Fourth Plain Renewal Task Force, focused on the vision for stakeholders working, living, and running businesses here. They identified a number of improvements to corridor revitalization: reducing crime, vandalism and graffiti; making the corridor more walkable and pedestrian friendly; making the corridor safer and more secure, including more lighting; and, creating a corridor ripe for economic development by reducing hurdles.
FACT: C-TRAN's Proposition 1 passed in the BRT Project Corridor.
It passed with a 52 percent approval. Using mapping from the Columbian, and data from the county elections office via the Columbian, we assembled the map below. It shows that in the BRT corridor, Proposition 1 would have passed. This shows support for the project by people who would have been willing to tax themselves to pay for it.
FACT: BRT is the only publicly-funded project that will provide permanent improvements, right now, and for many years to come.
Here's what you will get: fully lit open stations, with Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Principles (CPTED) implemented to reduce vandalism and crime, including graffiti-resistant shelters. Further, the City of Vancouver has incentive-based programs to spur economic development along the corridor, and BRT stations will help landowners meet City’s frontage development requirements, and also provide traffic congestion relief to the corridor. This will welcome residents, shoppers, neighbors, and workers to a safer, more pedestrian-friendly corridor.
The Fourth Plain BRT project will provide for many of these improvements and many of our corridor businesses and neighborhoods are actively waiting for their chance to weigh in on the design options. The only people who don't want this project are the rich, conservatives who don't even live in the corridor; in fact, they don't even live in Vancouver. Go ahead, next time someone comes around giving you false information about the project, ask them where they live.
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