Vancouver boosts most car sharing and busiest bike route in North America!

[CanineCowboy]

Eco Counter tallied its 2017 count, and of its 176 bike counters across North America, the Burrard Street Bridge was the busiest bike route with 1.13 million bike trips (an average of 3,100/day). All the cynics must be glad to know a third party has been counting all those bikes!

Vancouver also boasts more car sharing per capita than any other city in North America. Although car share cars still only make up .5% of actual cars in Vancouver, in some downtown neighbourhoods they make up 5% of the actual moving cars.

It seems like Vancouver embraced Gregor's 'greenest city' dream!

 

[uncleg]

Yet we are the 4th most congested city in North America.....wonder if all those bike lanes and special parking spots for car share operations have anything to do with it ???? I also have to wonder how many of the part-time car share types would actually be on the road, plugging things up if car share didn't exist, since most of them probably couldn't afford to own a car in Vancouver considering how expensive everything else is.

 

[MissingOne]

As an out-of-towner, having just spent a few days in Vancouver, walking or riding transit to get around, I have this question:

Does being a cyclist in Vancouver confer so much virtue upon said cyclist, that showing common courtesy to anyone else becomes irrelevant?

 

[ddcanz]

As an out-of-towner, having just spent a few days in Vancouver, walking or riding transit to get around, I have this question:

Does being a cyclist in Vancouver confer so much virtue upon said cyclist, that showing common courtesy to anyone else becomes irrelevant?

Pretty much my experience.
Not all, but certainly many.
I lived on the West side and in the West End and cycled faithfully for years in the 80s.
The cycling culture was entitled and snotty back then too.

 

[apl16]

Eco counter, sponsored my mayor moonbeam!

 

[Hugh Jass]

I thought you were through with this topic. Trolling much?

 

[UhOh]

Imagine the bicycle use if we didn't get 400 days of rain per year.

 

[Hoops]

Car sharing will decline when uber gets here.

 

[CanineCowboy]

I thought you were through with this topic. Trolling much?

It's not my fault that the CBC, the Vancouver Sun and the Courier all reported their stories the last coupke of days...and sorry Eco Counter is a global company, not a Vancouver enterprise, I hope your car centric hysterics don't disqualify you from accepting empirical evidence...we still dramatically trail the top German bike route by 50%...but hopefully converted the Cambie Street Bridge bike lane may actually peak at 3,700 cyclists/day attracting even more volume than the Burrard Street Bridge...for drivers this means even less cars...you should be ecstatic

 

[uncleg]

It's not my fault that the CBC, the Vancouver Sun and the Courier all reported their stories the last coupke of days...and sorry Eco Counter is a global company, not a Vancouver enterprise, I hope your car centric hysterics don't disqualify you from accepting empirical evidence...we still dramatically trail the top German bike route by 50%...but hopefully converted the Cambie Street Bridge bike lane may actually peak at 3,700 cyclists/day attracting even more volume than the Burrard Street Bridge...for drivers this means even less cars...you should be ecstatic

We Germans like our bikes...always have....only problem....our top bike route is through France.

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