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Roland's Bike Share Adventure Part 2 - East Van to Gastown

roland tanglao — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:23:37 -0700

Biking to work from East Van to Gastown was much easier than I expected. And much flatter. I think though that my "new to Vancouver biking" newbie brain has to be trained in the ways of the major bike paths or the signs have to be improved.

I got lost at the intersection of Woodland and Union going north. I was looking for "Union" because that's what I read on the bike routemap but it's signed "Adanac". So I rode past Adanac and then turned around but there was no sign for the "Adanac" or "Union" bike path at Woodland and Union going south. Luckily I knew it was Union street and that was signed correctly.

Check out my photos

Here are a few of my favourites.

Roland's Bike Share Adventure Part 1 - Gastown to Granville Island to East Van

roland tanglao — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:00:58 -0700

I have lived in Vancouver since July 12, 1998 but I never biked from Gastown to Granville Island to East Van !

Impressions:

Columbia Street is a mess. The Carrall Street Greenway will fix this methinks
As I said to a Vancouver Sun reporter, I want it to be like the bike paths in southern Germany where I lived for 3.5 years. No motorized vehicles because there will always be accidents when the two share the same space.
Canada Line construction is omnipresent and disrupting every mode of transit!
Biking is the best way to learn about a city next to walking.

I took 80 photos of my journey today (yes I am crazy enough to take cameraphone pictures everywhere :-) !)

Here are my favourites (guess where they are :-) ! )

Vancity Bike Share begins for Richard and I

roland tanglao — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:41:55 -0700

We did it! got the bikes. Now to blog, cycle, get fit and pass it on all in 3 weeks!

I've always like biking

roland tanglao — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:50:32 -0700

But since I moved back from Germany to Canada, I haven't done much biking. Time to restart! I'll keep the bike for 2 weeks or less and then set it free for the next person and will of course blog about it!