{"id":188700,"date":"2023-10-23T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=188700"},"modified":"2023-11-07T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:44:23","slug":"breaking-down-bike-lanes-as-a-source-of-bubkis-or-liberation-for-prince-george-with-unbc-planning-profs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/breaking-down-bike-lanes-as-a-source-of-bubkis-or-liberation-for-prince-george-with-unbc-planning-profs\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering the value of bike lanes in Prince George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Prince George is in the midst of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princegeorge.ca\/business-development\/zoning-land-use\/official-community-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Community Plan<\/a> Review, and one of the topics being addressed\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">is the role of bikes and bike lanes in the city. One of the central questions is '<\/span>Are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivesmartbc.ca\/lanes\/bicycle-lanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bike lanes<\/a> for everybody?'<\/p>\n<p>It's a large topic with many considerations. The bicycle was a form of transportation well before the automobile became common. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-is-most-of-the-road-space-dedicated-to-cars-instead-of-cyclists-and-pedestrians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People debate the issue<\/a> and ask why there isn't <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/improve-bike-lane-infrastructure-in-the-city-of-prince-george-bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more infrastructure<\/a> for this contraption in place already. But, much like a road for automobiles, a bicycle lane is expensive to build. If we look at dedicated bike lanes as an investment, do they pay off?<\/p>\n<p>To answer these questions and more, CFUR talked to\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.unbc.ca\/people\/graham-dr-rylan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Rylan Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.unbc.ca\/people\/groulx-dr-mark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Mark Groulx<\/a> of University of Northern BC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.unbc.ca\/school-planning-and-sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Planning &amp; Sustainability<\/a>. They explore Prince George\u2019s past, present, and potential future that could include bicycle lanes for residents of the city.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-187947\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-161x215.jpg 161w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_103903-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Prince George is in the midst of an Official Community Plan Review, and one of the topics being addressed\u00a0is the role of bikes and bike lanes in the city. One of the central questions is &#8216;Are bike lanes for everybody?&#8217; It&#8217;s a large topic with many considerations. The bicycle was a form&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":188946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225,2602],"tags":[6543,31756,4352,698,4615,18249,26346,3277,31755],"radio":[238],"origine":[280,264,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188700"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193188,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188700\/revisions\/193188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188700"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=188700"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=188700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}