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It's the third Tuesday of the month! You know what that means: the monthly VULC meeting!

Note the later start time: 7:15pm. In-person or on Zoom, see our groups.io site for details.

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An utterly fair assessment of cycling infrastructure and services in Vancouver by @copenhagenizers.bsky.social

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They note that Vancouver has slipped down the rankings but highlight some recent improvements, including the Granville Connector. #bikeyvr

Explore the full #CopenhagenizeIndex results at copenhagenizeindex.eu

Opening our Top 30 of #BicycleFriendlyCities, Vancouver 🇨🇦 claims the #30 spot. With strong foundations and “All Ages & Abilities” design approach, the city is cementing its place as one of North America’s inclusive mobility leaders! 
#CopenhagenizeIndex #EITUrbanMobility
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Care about safer streets for people walking, rolling & biking? Join a HUB Cycling Local Committee!

Meetings this week: Vancouver, Langley, Surrey/White Rock.

HUB committees flag safety issues, review infrastructure plans, and bring community voices to the table.
👉 bikehub.ca/get-involved

Help make bike parking better in the City of Vancouver! @hubvancouverubc.bsky.social volunteers to review bike parking assessments before they go to store owners.
-You’ll check reports and flag anything unclear or missing
-No technical expertise needed
More info: form-can.keela.co/25_action_va...

The Vancouver budget will be devastating to services so many rely upon and to the hardworking employees delivering them, but here's one tiny sliver of good news: the scheme to spend millions to widen Beach Avenue and tear out the bike lane appears to have been dropped from the Capital Plan!

Columbia Street Sewer Repair | Metro Vancouver Urgent repairs to the Columbia Street Sewer will begin to rehabilitate a 1.7 kilometer section of pipe to extend its service life.​

PSA: Work on the Columbia St. Sewer Repair project is continuing this week and into next week. The bike detour and 1st Ave. bike lane closure (between Quebec and Columbia) is still in effect.

Learn more at https://metrovancouver.org/services/liquid-waste/columbia-street-sewer-repair

The Downtown BIA is quite supportive. Also, the Hastings Crossing BIA has been quite friendly in the past few years.

The others? So much concern about on-street parking, so little concern about how people actually get to their businesses.

Vision Zero Vancouver (@visionzerovancouver.ca) saying the quiet part out loud. 👏👏 #bikeyvr

A Week of Learning with the Bruntletts Dutch Practices of Active Transportation Planning – This initiative brings Melissa and Chris Bruntlett back to Metro Vancouver for a series of events aimed at advancing active and inclusive transport...

An Evening with the Bruntletts. Friday, Oct 10, 7pm, Museum of North Van (MoNoVa). The Bruntletts (@modacitylife.com) moved to the Netherlands in 2019, and return to Canada to share their views on Dutch practices of making cities work

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#NorthVancouver #BikeLanes

Lynn Valley Library to Museum of North Vancouver | ride | Komoot Hank planned an outdoor adventure with komoot! Distance: 8.03 km | Duration: 00:32 h

Ride with Dutch group (@modacitylife.com). Sat, Oct 11, 10am - 1pm. The ride will be from Lynn Valley Library to the Museum of North Vancouver. Free tickets, limited to 50 people.

Route Map: www.komoot.com/tour/2571696...

Event Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/public-mee...

#NorthVancouver #BikeLanes

Tire like barriers

Interesting. @seattledot.bsky.social crews are installing a new bike lane barrier on Campus Parkway today that I’ve never seen before. They call them “a new recycled rubber material that we are excited to pilot and evaluate its durability. “ www.seattle.gov/transportati...

HUB Go by Bike Week, Sept. 27-Oct. 3. Win prizes for riding your bike: bikehub.ca/gbbw. A mother and her toddler stand with their bike.

Win prizes for riding your bike!

HUB Cycling's Go by Bike Week is back Sept. 27-Oct. 3!

Ride your bike to 15+ Celebration stations during the event for free bike checks, snacks, prizes, and more!

Join for free at bikehub.ca/gbbw #GoByBike #GoByBikeBC

I did reassure attendees that if they didn't want to ride with the threat of showers that it wasn't a big deal. So far today, we've had 7 people drop out. But 3 people signed up!

So, uh, we were sold out but now there's 4 tickets remaining if you'd like to join us tomorrow!

The latest forecast is now saying "Mainly cloudy, 20C".

Huzzah, the ride will be going ahead as planned.

The weather doesn't look super amazing right now for our Sunday ride to Steveston but also not rainy enough to postpone. A final call will be made tomorrow morning, but if you have a ticket and decide not to come, please cancel it.

The VULC has its GBBW ride to Steveston this weekend. Please note that this is *not* a rain or shine event. If the forecast calls for sustained rain, the event will be postponed. A decision will be made on Saturday morning (Sept 27th). Attendees will be notified by email if it is postponed.

A screenshot shot of the Van311 app showing a wide array of cycling related things that ca be reported to the city.

Vancouver! Look at all the things you can now report on van311.ca and the Van311 app! Obstructions of all sorts! PARKED CARS. #BikeYVR

A photo of many bikes, people, different lights of different colour, in a field, at night. There are lit residential towers in the background.

A photo of several people on bikes riding, at night, on a multiuse path, heading towards an underpass of a bridge. There's a green hedge on the right side, and water and a marina on the left.

A photo of many people on bikes lined up on a separated bike lane on a bridge, at night, waiting to get through a stop light.

A photo of the backs of 3 people on bikes riding in a road lane marked with pylons at night.

Scenes from tonight's Bike the Night! @wearehub.bsky.social @hubvancouverubc.bsky.social #bikeyvr

There's a ride today in support of cycling in Stanley Park, hosted by @tomdigby1.bsky.social and @ptfry.bsky.social .

2pm, meet at the Park Board office at 2099 Beach Ave. SPLoop after speeching.

Treat it as a warm-up ride for Bike the Night (starts at 5pm, first ride at 6:30pm)

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CORRECTION: Huge events are OPENING UP Metro Vancouver roads this weekend to people from all segments of our society.

Metro Vancouver - Services and solutions for a livable region. Metro Vancouver is a federation of 21 municipalities, one electoral area, and one treaty First Nation located in the region of the same name. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors of el...

PSA: Periodic lane closures on Denman St. at Georgia St. in #Vancouver for the Stanley Park Water Supply Tunnel Project from 7 AM - 8 PM until Oct. 21, 2025. Temporary traffic pattern changes & detours will be in place for people cycling.

Stay up to date on the project at metrovancouver.org

We also wrote a letter recently following up on the city's inaction addressing safety concerns at Clark Dr/10th Ave.

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#bikeyvr cc: @visionzerovancouver.ca

Man speaks out after brother hit by car while cycling in Kitsilano Matthew Yeung was biking home from school when he was struck by a car at the intersection of Creelman Avenue and Maple Street in Kitsilano. The collision was all caught on camera.

Man speaks out after brother hit by car while cycling in Kitsilano

Here is our official response to the Park Board on the Stanley Park Mobility Study final report (pdf):

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Six-storey parkade among ideas for Stanley Park's future Park board staff are giving commissioners dozens of options to manage traffic in the park

It's actually two six-storey parkades which are somehow supposed to alleviate traffic in the park rather than induce it and what are we even doing here, folks vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Park Board commissioner proposes reinstating Stanley Park Drive bike lane segment | Urbanized Tom Digby, a Green commissioner of the Vancouver Park Board, is proposing to reinstate the western segment of Stanley Park Drive's bike lane.

PB Commissioner Tom Digby @tomdigby1.bsky.social will be bringing forward an amendment to the Stanley Park Mobility Study report that we very much support: a partial return of the temporary bike lane! #bikeyvr

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And, oh, you can spread the word! Tell others, let them know what’s going on. Like, share, subscribe, etc. #bikeyvr 6/5

And, finally, you can show up in person to the Park Board meeting on Monday to provide support to people who care about cycling in Stanley Park and the safety of the people who ride there. Or, just to watch the wheels of government turn. (Sept 15th, 6:30pm, 2099 Beach Ave). 5/5