Bike bridge story:another language

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Cycled over with group to opening of yet another new major cycling facility grand opening: Canada Line bike-pedestrian bridge...which gets you to the airport from downtown Vancouver in a less stressful manner as a cyclist. If it rains too hard, you can jump onto the public transit train.

Today surprisingly there were more pedestrians than we cyclists there expected. But they enjoyed the cake at the end too!

I might have gotten into 1 of the local newspapers but I won’t be able to understand the newspaper language: it’s in Chinese. I must have had the right “look” since reporter approached me directly. Took my photo even though I could not speak either dialect properly… but methinks better, that reporter gets newspaper include his shot of an (Asian) mom and her 2 girls in the bike trailer, is a better, more inclusive appeal to Chinese language readers.

It is good that the Chinese language news and tv media were there, as well as “mainstream” English media….because the bike-pedestrian 1 km. bridge under the light rapid train line runs into a municipality, Richmond which has a high population of Asians (Chinese, Japanese & others). So more people to rope into cycling passion.

I am in the high-vi lime green and grey jacket with red helmet in some photos.
Photo of guy by the cycling group table, biked with all pamphlets, maps plus the table (folded up)..and later bought the large Costco carrot cake to celebrate in blue bike storage trailer that you see opened up.

There was also a group of native Indian youth (Musqueam) cycling group from one of the in-town aborginal reserves. One young man told me that they do outreach bike rides with different local schools, while at the same time serve as ambassadors of native culture. They are in the 3rd photo, wearing light blue T-shirts with an aboriginal design logo.