Comments on: Business Man Changes his Mind about Separate Bike Lanes!

By: Rita Evans

Rita Evans — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 05:57:26 +0000

I never foresaw the usage of bike lanes as transit corridors for disabled folks, but it makes perfect sense. Separate lanes are to protect vulnerable users from cars- whether said users are on a bike, wheelchair (or skateboard even). Horses are vulnerable too, so I am all for them as well. On a different note I saw a large pile of horse scat in the Hornby Bike route today – but I would say that is a small price indeed to pay for safe horses.

By: Average Joe Cyclist

Average Joe Cyclist — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 06:43:24 +0000

Nice to hear from you Jeannette. It warms my heart too. And I also remember being a child and cycling all over the place. I don’t know if it really was safe, or if I just felt safe because I was a child. I DO know that I tried to take my children cycling on the Adanac route about 10 years ago, and within 20 minutes one of them was almost run down by a young motorist who came roaring out of a side street, completely oblivious of the fact that he was speeding into a designated bike route. I realized that a sign that said “Share the Road” was not going to protect my children from drivers like that. So I stopped taking them for bike rides, because I just couldn’t take that risk. I hope to live to see a world where I can take my grandkids for bike rides without risking their lives.

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:09:26 +0000

It warms my heart to see children riding bikes downtown. I haven’t seen this since I was a little girl in a small town on the prairies. I was one of those children. Now I’m a senior, and I would not have dreamt of cycling in downtown Vancouver ten years ago! But with all those lanes I am ready to try, if people in wheelchairs can do it I can do!