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…

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.