For those of you who missed last night's ground-breaking debate at Vancouver City Council on the Hornby Bike Lane, here's a chance to read and hear what went on. Vancouver City Council unanimously voted for this new separated bike lane, so the Hornby Bike Lane will go ahead! This will ensure that Vancouver has a basic grid of separated bike lanes linking north and south and … [Read more...]
Vancouver City Council APPROVES $3.2 million separated bike lane on Hornby Street!
Boldly going where no Vancouver City Council has gone before, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver party took their green vision of a bicycle-friendly downtown Vancouver a step further yesterday (5th October). After a full day of debate, and only a short while before midnight (11.38 p.m.), they unanimously approved a new $3.2 million separated bike lane on Hornby … [Read more...]
Surprise – most people SUPPORT a separated bike lane on Hornby!
Cycling on Hornby Street, Vancouver, is extremely dangerous, as you can see from this photo. As a result, you will never see children biking on Hornby Street, and you will seldom see women and children, or men and children. Canada is a kind and caring nation, so you would think that people would want to change that, and make it safe to cycle in downtown Vancouver. BUT if … [Read more...]
San Francisco study finds merchants benefit from bike lanes, traffic calming — Geoff Meggs
San Francisco study finds merchants benefit from bike lanes, traffic calming — Geoff Meggs. Counsellor Meggs discusses an interesting study that shows that bikes lanes are not necessarily such a terrible thing as local businesses fear - on the contrary, four years on, most businesses benefitted by having a bike lane put in front of them. The street changed from two lanes in … [Read more...]
