Halleluya!! They added bike racks on bus ride home!!

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Come to think of it...for certain areas of a city, it may take several years to change people's travel habits.

Right now, this certainly is being discussed and analyzed closely here in Metro Vancouver since this year, our area recently constructed and opened up an additional commuter train line, a 20 km. greenway/MUP, 2 major road bridges which all of these additional, more convenient cycling routes that feed into the public transit (train & bus) lines and all are connecting the suburbs better with the downtown core. All this new stuff is a big plus to the existing real estate of local cycling network infrastructure.

Overall monthly statistics of: cycling, car volume in these areas and transit use, are receiving considerable interest here.

Note: Next stage is the local transit authority is considering installation of sensors on bike rack to "count" or measure the number of times the rack is pulled down to plop a bike onto the rack. This will help to measure bike rack usage. Based on the existing cost of a bike rack that is on our buses: a bike rack used 500 times will cover its cost.