There must be more to bike riding blogs than a discussion of the weather !

The weather has been exceptionally good this week, cloudless skies, cooler temperatures, perfect bike riding weather.

Since the last blog the BC government has announced the Gateway Plan, a $3 billion scheme to expand the transportation routes of the lower mainland. Included in this plan is $50 million to expand/upgrade cycling routes. This comes as a hard sell from the Liberals, cyclists want better routes to ride on but at the same time don't want more cars on the road to compete with.

The route I take to work is shared with cars, very few intersections direct traffic away from the bike route, in fact there is very little "encouragement" for cars NOT to use the bike route. More traffic calming, more legislation [by-laws] in regard to who has the right of way on the bike routes, more signage "local traffic only". Lower mainland drivers are simply not aware of cyclists as much as they could be, an education program to this end would help save lives and broken bones.

As the transportation issues heat up cyclists need to make their stand, we need to encourage the general population to get on their bikes and leave their unsustainable modes of transport behind, if only temporarily.