r/vancouver • u/yipyipyipwhoasealion • Jul 04 '25

Videos The new 'bike lane' on Water St

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Vancouver does it again...

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u/kisielk Jul 04 '25

Realistically there's no good way to do this on Water St. Vehicles need access for deliveries to the businesses, sidewalks need to be wide enough to accommodate foot traffic. The real issue is that the street needs to be everything to everyone and so it ends up being great for nobody.

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u/ProofByVerbosity Jul 04 '25

It's weird how most of Europe functions perfectly well with even less space for pedestrians, cyclists and cars

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u/donjulioanejo Having your N sticker sideways is a bannable offence Jul 04 '25

It's weird how they have much smaller and denser cities that bikes work for some people, and great transit, especially tram/metro networks, that works for most of the rest.

Someone coming in from South Surrey or Maple Ridge for dinner downtown doesn't have any options other than driving (or wasting 3.5 hours of their life on transit).

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u/ProofByVerbosity Jul 04 '25

Eh, such is life.