^ It's worth noting that the photo featured in the above post is the 'before' condition prior to the installation of a separated cycle track. What is pictured is Burrard Street en route to the Burrard Street Bridge. In 2009 separated bicycle lanes were added to the Burrard Street Bridge in lieu of a vehicle travel lane and the limitation of pedestrians to the sidewalk on the west side of the bridge deck. This was not the preferred arrangement but it has proven to be exceptionally popular with just a touch over 1 million trips during its first year of the new configuration and well over a million in year two. It's now permanent. The Burrard Street bicycle lane pictured above was the south-bound route to the bridge while the one way painted lane on Hornby Street, one block to the east, is the north-bound half of the couplet. It was along Hornby Street that a bidirectional separated cycle track was installed as a pilot project to connect Burrard Street Bridge with a route through the downtown core and CBD with a connection to the Dunsmuir Street separated cycle track.
Here is what the Hornby Street's cycle track looks like:
Taken by SFUVancouver, May 12th 2011.
And here's a shot of the Dunsmuir Street cycle track:
Taken by SFUVancouver, May 12th 2011.
Here's a shot of the cycle track on the Burrard Street bridge. Utilitarian but tremendously effective.
Taken by SFUVancouver, May 13th 2011.