On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Robbie Webber<[email protected]> wrote: > This little film clip was on CNN "iReports." > http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-315522 > > You know what I noticed, besides what a huge, cool event this was? How > polite the people were, even those motorists that seemed mad at the > idea. Canadians just don't get as worked up about cars, traffic, > congestion, etc as we do.
Canada is a big place with a lot of people, and we do have our road rage incidents and our asshole drivers in Vancouver just like in the US. > Stinkoid - were you there? No, I didn't even hear about it, actually. I'm in Seattle much more than Vancouver these days. Considering its density, I'd have to say that Vancouver isn't yet a great biking city, actually, though there are advances. E.g. the new light rail bridge to Richmond has a bike-only level suspended below. Reported to cost $1e7. And the city recently gave over a full lane of the Burrard Bridge to bikers, a very controversial step. But try to find a place to park a bike? Often futile. Oddly, I find Seattle drivers a little friendlier to cyclists than Vancouver drivers, even though the facilities here aren't great, either (except the Burke-Gilman trail, which is fantastic). They do things like routinely stop for bicyclists even when the motorist has the right of way. I attribute this to "liberal guilt." One difference is that you tend to find a lot more older cyclists in Vancouver than Seattle- regular folks in their 50s and 60s riding bicycles to work. Maybe the Seattle hills make it harder for older cyclists? Thanks for sharing this. -- Scott M. Rose Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
