October 21, 2010 - 12:03 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The writing is on the wall when it comes to Vancouver's reaction to the ever-emerging biking infrastructure, prompting a new strategy from the City Caucus boys.
The reactions to the Hornby bike lane as well as the other pieces of Vancouver’s biking infrastructure has been overwhelmingl positive save for those with a political axe to grind against the current Council.
Yesterday as an example, I was introduced to a gentleman who is an investment banker and a true power broker in the city, who after being challenged to get going by his kids, hopped on a bike last year for the first time in decades and hasn’t looked back. He has become an advocate amongst his kin within the business community, and has taken out a Vision Vancouver membership because of the initiatives that are being undertaken by the party.
The so-called controversial t-shirts are selling like hotcakes, people are really starting to reconsider their transportation options around town, and there is a new sense of peace between drivers and bikers who are no longer in each others faces to some extent.
So seeing this, and seeing that the NPA has actually come out and embraced bike lanes as a concept, the City Caucus boys changed their tactics of attack.
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October 19, 2010 - 8:54 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
If the NPA wants to run an election campaign on being anti-bike lanes, then they are likely to have their bubble of denial popped come next November.
The bubble of the blogosphere can tend to skewer perceptions of specific debates, and when I say this, the issue of bike lanes is top of mind.
Reading any of the anti-Vision Vancouver blogs and the comments of their internet trolls might give one the impression that the party is in for an electoral beating over the issue.
Frances Bula seems to think that this will be the wedge that the NPA latches onto next November:
“When Vancouver councillor Suzanne Anton sent out an urgent news release last week rescinding her vote for the Hornby Street bike lane, it looked as though the stage was being set for a replay of the bike lane as a civic-election wedge issue in 2011.
It’s an issue that worked for her Non-Partisan Association in 2005 and certainly their opponents, the ruling Vision Vancouver party, believe that’s what they’re gearing up for again.“
The reality of the support/dissent against the bike lanes, however, means that the NPA is likely barking up the wrong tree.
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October 4, 2010 - 12:29 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
September 24, 2010 - 9:58 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
Not everyone within City Hall is up in arms about the internal change that is currently occurring, as some might have the public believe.
Frances Bula wrote a story about the changes that are going on at City Hall, which is fascinating enough in its account of how those within the Hall are reacting to the way in which things are being shaped by the Vision administration. But then there was this comment left at her blog, which I for one don’t find surprising in the least:
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