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Originally Posted by idunno
Do you folks even live downtown? I'm on these streets every day and there are always people riding along. I didn't think people even gave a second thought to the downtown bike lane network anymore because it's so obviously been a success (as with every other city that is putting in this kind of infrastructure)
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Yeah, exactly. It happened I ended up walking almost the full length of Richards earlier today, and it was a steady flow of bikes, e-bikes, scooters, the odd wheelchair, a group of over a dozen bikes on some kind of tour or group ride at one point and so on.
Interesting question, how long would the bike lanes have to be there before the hate-all-change folks like Whatnext reclassify them in their minds from 'hated change to their city' to 'beloved character of their city that nobody should ever change'. Or is it just set at a certain age for the change-haters, and they just always want everything to be the way it was when they were, say, 20 or so, and then they spend the rest of their lives fighting an increasingly angry rearguard action of nostalgia?
As a side note, Richards is a really nice street, and the bike lane just enhances it all the more. One of the few on the east side of downtown that can compare favourably to the West End streets, in my opinion.
I wonder what the deal is with the giant surface parking lot on Richards just South of Robson - some property owner that hates money even more than Morguard does? I guess it has probably been discussed here before, but I don't recall.
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