Before the Burrard Bridge bike lane trial began, the city’s engineering crews counted an average of 3,500 vehicles per day traveling down the 1400-block of Howe Street towards the water. Now there are 6,500 vehicles per day rolling down the same strip.
Before the city implemented the no-right turn regulation at Hornby, an average of 4,000 motorists per day turned right off Pacific onto Hornby.
Does anyone remember all the talk of “Gregor’s gridlock”? A couple of former NPA loyalists devoted an entire website to it in fact, predicting that the Burrard Bridge lane trial would cause traffic to come to a standstill, the electorate to be up in arms and foaming at the mouth, and their former party’s fortunes to rise with the tide of public anger.
Fortunately for Vancouverites, the predictions fell flat on their face (without wearing a helmet, I might add) and a well-planned trial has proven that its obituaries were clearly premature. Today, the most challenging hurdle that the trial has faced to date was cleared without incident.
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More than 221,000 people have taken the second Amtrak evening train to Vancouver since the service began last August. It had a record month in July with nearly 25,000 passengers. Ridership on the morning train has also increased 21% in the past year.
“Economic power is [dependent] on how fast you move people and goods around. You see China growing right now very rapidly in this direction. This is the direction North America must go.” – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
