Great photos MarieV!

Riding through downtown Vancouver was a little scary, especially with the heavy car traffic, tour buses, and pedestrians. There’s a really nice bike lane on Richards St. and cycle tracks along Dunsmuir St. and Hornby St., so I don’t know why the route went along W. Cordova St., which had a lot more car traffic and no dedicated lane for cyclists. After winding through downtown Vancouver, we made it to the finish at the Coast Plaza Hotel and joined our friends for drinks on the patio.
If you came along the Adanac, you could gotten onto the Dunsmuir St. separated bike lane and there could have been some side streets to take people away from the main roads.

I've only cycled the Barnett Highway northeast to Vancouver from Burnaby once. We cycle home from Golden Ears Bridge and hook into Pitt Meadows dikes path, eventually onto the Central Valley Greenway bike route (30 km.) from New Westminister into Vancouver.

I cannot even begin to repeat myself that Cascades Club should really think of cycling on the Ontario St. bike route as I mentioned earlier in this thread into downtown..as another alternative.