Every year as part of the Share The Road Challenge, car drivers and transit users compete in a race to the downtown in Vancouver as part of the HUB Cycling Annual “Share the Road Challenge”. Thirteen teams of bike, car and transit users started out at various locations in Vancouver and North Vancouver. Their mission? Arrive at the corner of Granville and Georgia Streets faster than their team mates.
For the first time in eight years of running this challenge, the bicyclists on each team were the fastest, arriving at the downtown finish line way ahead of the vehicular and transit modes.
As reported in the the Daily Hive, the development of dedicated bike lanes and bike boxes at intersections is paying off handsomely in faster bicycle commute times. Everything has come full circle-cycling is the way to go, and as this race proves, is the quickest way to travel to the downtown.
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It just shows that people who cycle in cities are not doing it for ecological, do-gooder, fashion, economic or malicious reasons. No, they chose it because it makes the most sense for that trip.
Don’t forget the sheer existential pleasure of cycling; the low-impact exercise; the chance to be outside and enjoy the views. The focus on fast is disturbing – and promotes aggressive cycling.
Part of me doesn’t want to promote cycling because, where we live, I often get fabulous routes all to myself. To go shopping is like skiing in the city – on fresh powder.
There’s a DVD called: You Never Bike Alone. A beautiful cyclist Is asked how it feels to cycle naked. She answers: “It feels f…… awesome.”
It would have been fun to put mayor Rob Ford on a bike. Maybe then he wouldn’t have been compelled to smoke crack while in a drunken stupor. That guy was obsessed with building transit – that’s reason enough to consider it suspect.