Let the deconstructionist analysis begin. The city has posted the first round of stats on car, bike and pedestrian traffic on the bridge, noting that bike traffic is up 30 per cent, pedestrian is steady and car flows are fluctuating after a 10 per cent drop in the first days.
And, so as not to miss [...]

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Just kidding, folks, about the last half of that headline — although I’m almost expecting it tomorrow, given the level of hysteria that has erupted over this short stretch of pavement. Good thing no one tried anything really radical or I can’t imagine what would have happened.
Anyway, as part of my first full day back [...]

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This just out from the folks at city hall
Burrard Bridge protected cycling and pedestrian pathways to open on July
13
Protected pathways for cyclists and pedestrians are scheduled to be in
place on the Burrard Bridge starting Monday, July 13. This trial
addresses three key issues: safety, sustainability and affordability,
and involves the following changes:
*       the west [...]

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I see from my handy email service that there’s going to be a not-for-attribution technical briefing at Vancouver city hall on the Burrard Bridge bike lane today at 10:30 where all will be revealed on how this will work.
Stay tuned for more exciting news.

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Just had lunch with SFU urban-studies program director Anthony Perl, who was beyond dismayed with council’s decision to opt for a one-lane bike trial Thursday. Perl says he’s now come to believe the city needs an advocate for pedestrians, as exists on Portland’s city planning staff, since they are the group that now has to [...]

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In their first step towards taking away car space for bikes, Vision councillors opted this afternoon for the compromise solution of taking away only one lane on the Burrard Bridge instead of two lanes.
The bike trial, which will start in four to six weeks, will go like this: All pedestrians confined to the west sidewalk [...]

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City council only made it through about half of the 20 speakers who showed up this morning to voice their opinions on the proposed Burrard Bridge bike-lane trial now up for councillors to decide on. (Decision: two lanes for bikes, one lane, do nothing or buy Hummers.)
From the look of the list, only Charles Gauthier [...]

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The debate over the bike-lane trial on Burrard Bridge is clearly going to be intense, judging by the volume and passion of comments on this blog. Here is what the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, which has maintained a pretty consistent position on this over the years, has to say. Decision on whether it’s going [...]

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Weirdly, the long-awaited report on the Burrard bike-lane trial is available on Councillor Geoff Meggs’ website here but it’s not available on the city website yet. This will likely fuel [yet more] speculation in certain quarters that Commissar Meggs is secretly running city hall, though I suspect it’s just he got the report along with [...]

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Lots of speculation about what is happening with the Burrard Bridge bike trial, which will involve closing two lanes of traffic. Councillor Geoff Meggs has a brief update on his blog here, but to add a few more details that I’ve heard from the inside.
City doesn’t want to start any trials until construction is finished [...]

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