"Cities in North America all caught the same mania of city building where you just try to stuff as many cars through a downtown as you can rather than making places people wanted to actually spend time in. Cities are better when you're not just racing through them in your own enclosed metal box."
"I left a doctor's office inspired to work on the diet & get more exercise in my life but what I was going to do that wasn't going to be a drag? I was literally walking by the #BikeLanes on 12th that were still new at that time & I thought, 'oh, hey, why don't you just get a bike?' So I got a bike!"
"Most surveys show there's around 20% of cyclists that are 'hardcore' & going to ride no matter what. Which means there's a huge %age, say 50 to to 70% who basically say, 'look, if it was more comfortable, safer & convenient I would definitely do it & do it more.'"
The data on #Bikelanes are clear & consistent: GREAT for cities in just about every metric you can think of. So why are politicians across Canada attacking them? We dig in with #BikeCalgary's Doug Clark & Alyssa Quinney