Calculate GHG savings


 Bike Route Grant eligibilityrequired GHG savings estimate  requirements was to show estimated GHG savings and traffic monitoring before and a year later to determine success.  My FOI documents showed none submitted.  

How could the city planner submitt this grant application without all the people involved as above whose priority is GHG reduction?  They work in the same building, how will they mitigate this increase in GHG's created by stopping over 4000 vehicles daily on grade so a couple of bicycles don't have to STOP on 3rd st.  Never mind the GHG's from priority plowing and sanding 3rd and all 12 STOP signs.

Did the EcoSociety know this would increase GHG's when they wrote their letter of grant support?Would they write it now, how about all the others who wrote grant letters of support? 

Why would the city transit supervisor (hardly arms length a grant for the city) write a letter of support now that they will be priority plowing and sanding while the real need is our steep uphill streets, while this is done for how many cyclists in winter??? 

That would require traffic monitoring, the city claims this, but where is this?  The grant application says no counts(monitoring) for 3rd st. was done.

Video evidence shows 4 to 6000 vehicles now stop and start daily on grade.  None of this would have happened if they had actually monitored 3rd st. traffic where they turned all the stop signs.

Fairview is 10 to 15%, they turned 6 STOP signs so vehicles now stop and start on grade.

This can only increase GHG's,  does anyone know how to calculate the increase in GHG's? 

The grant was to save GHG's, many city consultants and employees are all about energy savings.

How did this get missed, and what will the city do now?  All their plans to reduce GHG's in so many ways and this must be a huge contributor that negates so much other work.  The only solution return the STOP signs.  

One should also consider the brake dust, asbestos and other particles created at the intersection


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