Grade 7, 8 and 9 students from Skeena Middle School packed Terrace Council Chambers today in a call for safety improvements for cyclists in the city.
As part of their “Build It and They Will Bike” innitiative, the students began by presenting stories of their trials on Terrace bike routes.
Student concerns centred around disconnected and sporadic bike lanes, vision concerns due to setbacks at intersections, vehicle parking concerns, road condition issues, and more.
In order to fix the problem, the students are calling for the City to install safer, segregated, bike lanes.
Segregated lanes would place a concrete curb, or other physical obstacle between the bike lanes and vehicles.
By replacing the City’s current lanes with segregated lanes, more residents would be inspired to bike, improving both the physical and mental health of residents, as well as environmental health.
Students also put councillors to task on their failure to capitalize on streams of funding for improvements to bicycle safety.
They also presented a plan for where council should focus efforts to improve bike lanes, a map of which is included below.
