If you find yourself in Victoria, BC before June 30, 2024, head over to Habit Coffee on Pandora Avenue to check out my first Fietspad photo exhibition. Cost of entry… buy some of their great coffee and locally sourced snacks to support this shop doing a great service to the community in hosting such events by local artists… and engineers...

Dutch designs, even Dutch levels of ridership during the BC Land Summit bike tour… Catching up on Metral Drive after a year or two, as we take a bike ride through Nanaimo on the new Evo bike share bikes, taking in some multi-use pathways, protected bike lanes, protected intersections and continuous sidewalks and bike paths.

If you’re interested in listening to me talking about my books and how I ended up doing what I do, have a listen to my conversation with John Simmerman on his Active Towns podcast. Links to the YouTube video and a few audio versions below…

With a few hours to kill around Downtown Vancouver, I took a spin around on the bike, where I thought I’d try and find some classic waterfront views. Not my typical post, but sometimes it’s nice just to enjoy the view… There’s still some good traffic free bike infrastructure though…

The final chapter of fietspad not only summed up the findings of that trip, it was the starting point to explore other Dutch ideas, beyond the protected bike lanes, protected intersections and continuous sidewalks that are already gaining traction.

If cargo bike moms and dads are the indicator species of bicycle network safety and connectivity… then Victoria is pretty safe and connected... On this whistle stop tour of some of the city’s bike infrastructure, they were everywhere.

From red bike lanes, continuous sidewalks and nearside signals in Canmore, to pedestrian bridges and a new woonerf in Banff. These mountain towns are showing that a bit of snow and winter conditions is no excuse not to do good things with your streets…

Well, sort of… this blog post is less about super wide bike lanes, and more super wide photographs of them. But like usual, there are lots of bike lanes, and some other interesting things along the way…

Featuring the things that didn’t fit in a nice neat place of their own, from infrastructure to lifestyle, to simply nice or interesting photos I took along the way. There’s still a few stories to tell… It’s a long one…

Copenhagen style bike lanes, landscaped bike lanes, pedestrian streets, no right-turns-on-red, and an innovative bicycle street amongst other things…

Canals… Protected bike lanes… ok, it still has a ways to go, but spending a week in Ottawa, and for the first time, having my bike with me, I was able to explore a lot more than many previous trips, and there’s a lot of good things happening. Here’s what I came across…

Imagine a traffic signal that is aware you’re arriving on a bike and decides to adjust its timing to give you a green light without needing to stop. It doesn’t happen every time, but when it does, it’s quite special!

It might seem like nit picking, but what we call a street for bicycles is important, even more so if we can reflect that name in the signage and pavement markings, and maybe even convey the priorities a little better than a simple sharrow.

We’re talking Nice, the City in France here, but the infrastructure could also be described as nice. Take a wander and occasional bike ride along some of the protected bicycle infrastructure.

Continuous sidewalks and bike paths are relatively new in Canada, but there’s growing interest. Let’s take continuous sidewalks and bike paths across local streets from emerging practice to standard practice in Canada.

To date we’ve been doing them wrong in North America, or at least in the wrong places. Woonerf’s are most often found on residential local streets rather than commercial main streets in the Netherlands.

The Esplanade Complete Street project provided a considerable upgrade to the active transportation infrastructure and streetscape along this busy commercial arterial street, making it safer and more comfortable for everybody travelling along it.

What it’s like to ride a folding bike straight from the airport, ride it relatively long distances, take it on the train, and even take it around the grocery store…