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I’m guessing that this little video will annoy the hell out of those who point to the bike lanes and say something like this:
(Wedgewood hotel manager Phillip Meyer, an avid road cyclist) is not enamoured of the dedicated Hornby Street lane outside.
“Just look,” he said, waving to stalled cars, many vacant retail premises and the occasional cyclist, usually without a helmet.
Or Kathyrn Marshall, in a 24-Hours column:
But how many of these cyclists are really daily commuters who the bike lanes were supposed to attract? How many are recreational cyclists, tourists or couriers?
On the other hand, it should confirm what Globe columnist Mark Hume wrote:
Vancouver mayor may pay the political price for bike lanes
It is too soon to say that a major cultural shift has taken place (the car is still king in Vancouver), but it’s starting to look like one is in the making.
The weather has been dreadful this summer. It has mostly been cold and rainy. Despite that, the number of people riding bikes has soared.
In June, an average of 2,200 cyclists used the Dunsmuir bike lanes mid-week – 50 per cent more than during the same period last year.
Several thousand cyclists a day now ride over Burrard Bridge. A date picked at random from daily statistics shows that on June 4 this year, 6,274 rode over the bridge, as compared to 3,006 last year.
UPDATE: Brian Gould, who along with Kathleen Corey, did that delightful video above, has also done an In-depth analysis on the separated lanes for Spacing Vancouver.
