I enjoy having contrarian views and do not think any ideas or comments should be removed unless they are clearly hateful. Silly is fine. And I am sure many people consider my own ideas and comments silly.

The trial is intended to improve safety and help make cycling more appealing for all ages and abilities. To date it has been a huge success: significantly more cyclists are using the bridge -- a 24% increase in general, even higher for women and children -- and accident rates are down. The number of pedestrians and cars crossing the bridge have not changed appreciably, and transit operations are unaffected.

On July 7th 2010, the trial celebrated its one millionth cyclist, less that a year after the trial began. The following day, Council approved funding for the design of bridge rehabilitation work and permanent separated cycling paths.

For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ca/burrard.

@MZAN & Greenest City Planning Team I agree with MZan comment and think that this is not what this discussion is based on and such comments serve only to undermine efforts of the city to make it the greenest city in the world.

This "idea," which is being extremely generous, should be immediately removed from this site. The explanation from the Greenest City Planning Team Admin is too accommodating and will only encourage this sort of dissent. There is no positive side to this suggestion. This is not the way to achieve our sustainable transportation goals--only to be inflammatory and further a political agenda.

@Lawson, The purpose of the Talk Green to Us forum is to solicit ideas on how Vancouver can become the greenest city by 2020.

To get us there, we have established ten long term goals each with a 2020 target. Now we are developing a plan to reach those targets. Over the next few months, interdepartmental working groups will be considering ideas put forward in this forum as they create their implementation plans.

The transportation group has two 2020 targets to achieve: to make the majority of trips by foot, bicycle and public transit; and to reduce distance driven per resident.

Since the transportation sector is responsible for nearly 40% of Vancouver’s greenhouse gas emissions (32% from Cars and small trucks, 5% from Heavy trucks) looking at ways to encourage alternative forms of transportation is one of the levers we are using to meet our climate goals.

Can you please explain how your idea of removing bike lanes will help us meet these targets?

You can learn about the goals here: http://www.talkgreentous.ca/goals.php or in this video: http://www.youtube.com/user/VancouverCityHall#p/u/16/FJfLpti-S00

And the City’s greenhouse gas emission breakdown can be found here: http://vancouver.ca/sustainability/climate_protection.htm