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Vancouver Creates Continuous Network of Protected Bike Lanes

October 12, 2010, GOOD - Transport

How do we make our car-oriented cities friendlier to cyclists? Look north. Over the past few years, Vancouver has been steadily reclaiming space on its busy streets for bikes.

After creating protected bike lanes on two of the main routes into the city—the Burrard Bridge and the Dunsmuir Viaduct—Vancouver is now in the process of expanding that infrastructure so that people who bike into the city can safely bike through it, too.