cycling

Vancouver is fading in a dense, sea fog. As I cycle back along the waterfront tonight, the only sign that there is life on the other side of the water are the fuzzy, dull yellow lights through the mist of smudged-out high rises. I'm used to having the waterfront to myself at this time of night, at this time of year. Tonight the only other signs of life is a punk walking his pug, a couple of photographers setting up equipment under the bridge, and excited screams and voices bouncing across the water from a party boat on the other shore. The night is eerie, in a beautiful way.

The Burrard Bridge bike lane trial looks set to become permanent after the Olympics in February - a Vancouver City survey found bike traffic was up, accidents were down, and there was general support (45% supported the bridge changes versus 21% against) for the single-lane compromise.

Vision Vancouver, the party in power at City Hall, managed to keep its election promise today by voting to introduce a lane reallocation trial on the Burrard Bridge.

However, the party that has claimed that it wants to make Vancouver "the greenest city in the world," chose a one-lane reallocaton option that will ban pedestrians from crossing the Burrard bridge on the east side.

Kevin Falcon, B.C. Transportation Minister, no longer wants to twin the Port Mann Bridge. Unfortunately, it's not because he's had an epiphany, seeing that there's no place for massive road infrastructure projects in a future with peak oil and climate change.