In Vancouver, the Bermuda triangle for cyclists is the downtown peninsula.
In neighbourhoods such as Kitsilano or Commercial Drive, bike trips account for 10 per cent or more of travel.
But those numbers drop to about half of that as cyclists are asked to cross bridges and enter the downtown’s busy streets, where there is nothing more than painted lanes separating them from buses, cars and trucks.
"We have a good network downtown, but they’re narrow spaces.
"They’re daunting," said Geoff Meggs, the Vision councillor who sits on the city’s bicycle advisory committee. "We haven’t produced as much bike share as we’d like."
Vancouver engineers and cycling enthusiasts want to change all that by creating at least one route through the peninsula where cyclists are physically protected from vehicular traffic, arguing that they’re never going to attract the silent majority of potential cyclists if they don’t.
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"Point Grey Road may be an excellent idea. But my concern is that we avoid spending money on disconnected pieces of a network. We want to start building fixes where we get the biggest bang for our dollars."
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