The following gives an overview of the result of our matching process. This kind of matching gets messy (and computationally expensive) fast, check the code if you need to know the details of how we wrangled the data. We take the approach that each measurement applies to exactly one road segment, the one closest to it. It’s a bit messy as the location of the measurements do not exactly coincide with road segments. We can fold those in to label the segments that we can identify that way. ![]() Unfortunately, the individual road segments aren’t labelled, but the widths dataset consists of points at which measurements (or estimates) were taken. Conveniently enough the dataset has information on that. To understand how much space the roads right of ways take up we need to know how wide each road segment is. (Of note here is that the Metro Vancouver land use dataset did not include non city roads.) But Mitch’s question just mentions Vancouver, so let’s stick with that for this post. There is a judgement call to be made if we should include Musqueam in our analysis, we did include it in our previous post. We also not that the dataset includes some roads outside of CoV, including the ones in Musqueam 2 that in many cases is included in CoV planning. Champlain Heights or Tugboat place) or ministry roads like Highway 1 or the roads in Stanley park. We see that non city streets are private strata roads (e.g. The dataset distinguishes three types of streets, “city streets”, “lanes”, and “non city streets”. You should also check out Mitchell’s article in Spacing on lanes, the space they take up, and what else could be done with some of that space. The Arbutus Corridor is just the latest example of how a transportation corridor can be repurposed, and the proposals on how to shape the individual sections looks amazing. Transportation corridors can be a great resource for public space and even parks as Vancouver’s ratio of park space to people is slowly declining. ![]() Given the sheer mass of land dedicated to streets right-of-ways in Vancouver we should be paying a lot more attention to this. And write up a quick blog post for posterity, in case someone has questions or wants to refine this. But that’s easy enough to do thanks to the streets package in Vancouver’s Open Data Catalogue. Mitchell Reardon asked me a question about lanes in the City of Vancouver: “Do you happen to have a figure (or quick way to calculate) the number of laneways in Vancouver, and the amount of space they take up?” I have looked at the overall space taken up by roads before using the Metro Vancouver land use dataset, but never looked just at lanes.
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