Joined a picnic organised by the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition - brought fraternal greetings from CAW!

They've achieved an enormous amount - cycle routes throughout the city, bikes on buses and trains - there's even a motorway overpass (shades of the proposed Basin Reserve flyover!) that has now been partly turned over to a bicycle path! The annual cycling budget is $CAN25 million.

I asked them about how they persuaded the transit authorities to invest in putting bike racks on all the buses - apparantly one of the telling arguments was point to point journey time - when this is taken into account, being able to take bikes on buses becomes very effective.

Couple of pix attached of the picnic by the False Creek bike path, near the Olympic Village.VACC cycle advocates picnic, False Creek bike path near Olympic Village, Vancouver

VACC advocates send fraternal greetings to CAW