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Bikeways and neighbourhood greenways are often built by cities in residential neighbourhoods as a way of creating safe routes for people on bikes without constructing separate bike lanes. They can be great - offering safe, quiet, pleasant routes through areas that may otherwise be car-centrically hostile. Or they can be little more than lip service, offering nothing more than a chance for a municipal politician to say they are doing something for cyclists without actually doing much of anything.
In this video, I ride two different bikeways in two different cities - Vancouver and Calgary - to compare the differences from a cyclist perspective. And to measure the differences, I'm using my Plus 1 Minus 2 Scale, in which a point is awarded for anything I come across that makes my bike trip better, and remove two for anything that makes it worse.
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Calgary
8:52 Vancouver
13:22 The winner is!
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