Frances Bula writes in the Globe and Mail about today’s Council discussion on more bike lanes in Vancouver. Staff report: transport.dec.2015
“In the face of the failed transit referendum, I think the city has to do this,” said Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association.
Every person who commutes by bicycle is someone not on transit or in a car and that helps ease the congestion, he said.
His business members, who were once adamantly opposed to separated bike lanes downtown, are now mostly telling him that it’s what their employees want and it’s the way of the future.
George Affleck is anti-business.
I have yet to hear of anyone anywhere who had started out being against any new cycling infrastructure before it was built who continued to be against it after it was built. All have changed their mind or changed their tune.
Therefore just being against it is not a good enough reason to not do it. Certainly listen to their concerns and accommodate their needs but don’t stop a good thing just because a few people don’t like the sound of it.