Dunsmuir Viaduct gets a facelift

I've been riding over the Dunsmuir Viaduct once a week since last September. At first I took the very narrow pedestrian pathway, this was barely wide enough for two pedestrians to pass let alone two cyclists. A few years back I had a nasty scrape when taking the Georgia side, this little accident took the skin off my leg and ripped my panier from its moorings.


Last week I once again made my weekly trek in to downtown, thinking the viaduct may or may not have been open since the Olympics were in the process - however, I was most pleased to see that the right lane of the Dunsmuir viaduct now separated from traffic with concrete and a two way bike lane in place EXCELLENT ! Finally there is a safe route in to downtown from the east side.

Thanks to the work of the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition in tandem with a bike friendly city council we are now seeing some excellent cycling infrastructure improvements in the city - however we need to continue to separate cars from cyclists where ever we can.


Read an article Mike Howell in the Vancouver Courier here.


As mentioned in the article Councillor Geoff Meggs' was recently involved in an accident in which he was knocked to the ground and thankfully due to wearing a helmet received non-life threatening injuries even though he was made unconscious as a result. See this article in the Province Some of the awful comments on that page are truly sad and pathetic. I've not been a fan of Councillor Meggs, I never knew he was a cyclist however. But for people to make such comments about him and cyclists overall just tells me how people who drive cars are threatened by people who ride bikes.


As momentum builds it is great to see a better solution for the Arbutus rail corridor, since we obviously will not be getting rail transportation, why not make it in to a cycling route ? It will be away from traffic and on an easy slope up towards West 45th Ave. See the Facebook group.

Looks like it will be a busy summer....