Re: "Cycling upgrades in capital could cost $220 million," Aug. 12.
For a hundred years, we have been giving huge public subsidies to the car industry in the form of asphalt roads, traffic lights and police to monitor traffic violations. Finally, with the knowledge of climate changes, the impact of pollutants and the rash of pedestrian deaths and injuries, we are waking up to taking a second look at transportation alternatives.
Separated bike lanes with concrete barriers will bring more people onto the road because it will be safer and therefore more pleasant to bike from point A to point B. Seniors, new riders and children in particular will benefit from these changes.
These changes are long overdue and I congratulate the Capital Regional District on its forward thinking on this issue.
Dave Kesson Victoria
