Cyclists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiu1uLgwF1E

I see loads of businesses on my bike downtown? And more and more people cycling too

I like cycling. Its a healthy, fun activity. But we have places like Stanley Park where you can ride around all day long. The problem is that some people in Vancouver and probably other West coast cities, seem to believe they can create some sort of northern European communal idyll while in reality the sort of policies they propose are throttling the very economic oxygen supply the city depends upon.The only thing that's even allowing such nonsense is the opiate of property taxes. But ironically those who are most in favour of bikes lanes and other such idiocy are finding they're getting pushed further out of the city they want to tranquillize. We need a Rob Ford!

not really. I live in the 'burbs, I can't cycle around stanley park all day long. Biking to and from work downtown is my best chance to get exercise, AND it takes another car off the road, arguably leaving more room for commercial traffic.

I don't see any evidence of the city being throttled. The port is still there and the main roads to the port (hastings, dundas, etc) don't have bike lanes. Lougheed highway - no bike separated bike lanes. Oak - no separated bike lanes. Main - same. Knight - same. Those are all the main arteries in and out of the city. The lanes are on quiet side streets.

I like cycling too and encourage my kids to cycle as well as I think its a healthy low impact exercise.

What I hate with a passion are cyclists who think they can ignore the rules of the road unless it suits them. Breaking red traffic lights, no signals and cycling on paths used by pedestrians. Yet the same ones, and I've watched cyclists do this, hurl abuse at any motorist they feel is not following the rules of the road e.g. making sure that it's safe to proceed on a green because some a***hole of a cyclist is bombing through a red traffic light that turned red 5 seconds ago.

yeah, some cyclists are idiots but so are a lot of drivers. And a lot of drivers HERE, in Van, are clueless about what it's like to ride a bike and get mad over normal biking behaviour. Don't whine if you're stuck behind a cyclist on a bike street - there are many, many side streets for cars. Take one of those and shut your pie holes, car drivers.

http://m.torontosun.com/2012/11/12/r...e-lane-removal

Ha ha Ford stood and applauded when the lanes were removed. Now that's a Hands on Mayor

we will never get a Ford for the simple reason that Vancouver is not amalgamated with the outer burbs so Vancouverites will vote on what works for Vancouver as a city, not what works for Surrey or Maple Ridge or wherever else the car-dependent choose to live. I'm glad actually. I live in the 'burb outside Van and our city doesn't want more traffic either, neither does New Westminster, which is fighting with Surrey over the new Patullo bridge. Why should we have to lose quality of life because some people choose to live far away?

Ford, who lives far away from Toronto, might argue that more people commute than live in the city. The people living in the city have the advantage of not spending much of their day getting to and from work, they're privleged, why should they have the additional advantage of resources such as parts of streets being devoted to them? Urban bicycle paths and, indeed, pavements (known as sidewalks locally) detract from the quality of life of the car borne masses, they're an indulgence and an inappropriate use of tax revenues. He might add that for each hundred yards of pavement eliminated he would save the city a trillion dollars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMn...eaZQIj4NwXd_Up

This should make your day

Totally. it's a war of lifestyles. Luckily, we aren't amalgamated with the car-huggers so they don't get to impose their lifestyle on us...much...

Not a fan of Boris Johnson then?

I only like him because he falls over in rivers, gets stuck on zip lines, admits trying cocaine and calls New Yorkers fat on Letterman.

It makes him more genuine.. can't stand the accent though!

The inconsistency was that she changed her mind about him being violent. Par for the course with abused spouses.

Who does Burnaby need?