City happy with bike lane use numbers
Councillor Geoff Meggs says there's ground for optimism that the trial will be successful
Sheila Scott Feb 17, 2011 18:51:11 PM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - According to the city, the number of cyclists using the Hornby and Dunsmuir Street bike lanes is "pretty good," but there's still room for growth.
The city says an average of 600 cyclists per day used the lanes last month.
Councillor Geoff Meggs says he's happy with the numbers he's seeing. "Six hundred a day is pretty good in January, when the weather has generally been pretty poor and it's often dark at commuter times. I'm hoping and expecting those numbers to grow quite a bit as the weather improves."
The highest weekly average came in July, with over 12,000 trips.
According to the city, travel times in the morning for cars have remained the same, and increased by one minute in the afternoon since the lanes were installed.
Meggs says that is a good sign that the fears of congestion were exaggerated. He adds the city is also studying the business impacts of the lanes.
Sheesh... what is this Geoff Meggs and our Bike Boy mayor smoking? If they haven't seen the congestion getting in and out of DT, and within DT itself, I'd really like to share some of their hallucination-inducing agents...
It is almost impossible for me to use the public transit system,
for meeting different clients from West Vancouver to White Rock,
and a van full of equipments and supplies.
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