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Get a look at these elitist cyclists.
Point Grey Road closed to commuter motorists makes this fabulous neighbourhood run possible! To the few naysayers who said that the road was closed only for cyclists, take a gander at this photograph! Hooray!
What’s going on in this picture? Is it a running club or something? (Or has jogging-commuting exploded on the west side?)
It’s a running group training on PGR. They come regularly, do sprints, aerobics etc.
… and no complaints from the cyclists?
I ride my bike to many places for many reasons, when I’m not walking, taking my car, or transit, or an airplane, or seabus, or aquaferry. I love to see people getting active and having fun. And if I was on my bike on PGR and encountered this group, I’d find a way to get by, and my bet is that we’d exchange cheerful greetings while doing it. Such is the nature of active happy people.
Move along folks, no partisan divisiveness here.
Something motorists don’t get about being on a bicycle: You can use your voice to talk to other people. If you’re riding and encounter this group of people rather than get annoyed and honk your horn, you can ask them politely to shift over so you can pass them safely!
In the process you can even greet them and have a quick conversation! Imagine that!
There is a set of pictures from Point Grey Road this afternoon on my flickr page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_rees/sets/72157642269691293/
All I see in those pictures is, despite the large expenditure, a space remarkably devoid of cyclists or pedestrians
Midday, midweek there were both pedestrians and cyclists, but I didn’t count them. And I doubt they will show up on the tube counts either. Weekends and during the summer there will be more of course. Less at low tide when people are exploring the foreshore. In any Vancouver residential area, away from the arterial road system, the streets are quiet, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Achieving this on Point Grey Road is a significant accomplishment which I – and many others – applaud. I think the use of this traffic calming scheme as a stick to hit Vision Vancouver is going to rebound quite badly.
No, it won’t. Too many neighbourhoods have fallen victim to Vision’s tactic of turning a deaf ear to their opinions.