San Rensho 

https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14581082.htm

I thought the article was fairly balanced for what usually passes as bicycling coverage in the Miami Herald.

closetbiker

I guess the usual spring time stories about cycling has caught the recent jump at the pump so there seems to be a raise in the intrest of the topic.

I posted a thread, "Spring Press" where our National Post featured cycling on the front page with a big picture of an angry cyclist face that led to a front page picture on the story in its own section. The International Herald-Tribune featured it in a big feature with pictures in the business section and I just posted the Wall Street Journals feature that I liked because (as with the IHT feature) it lays out the fear of being hurt by cars seems to be a little misplaced. Accident rates of cyclists have gone down with the increase of cyclists and people are starting to acknowledge the health benefits of riding outweight the risks of collisions.

The Canadian Geographic magazine (our version of the international magazine) recently has Vancouver on the cover this month because of our progressive vision of development being looked at by other cities around the world. I think the increased levels of cycling here reflect the cities vision.
(https://www.cangeo.ca/magazine/mj06/feature.asp)

I don't know about the 4.4% level though. Last time I checked the entire region was at 1.9% and Vancouver itself was 3.3%, however, it could have gone up in Vancouver from the last time I saw the 3.3%. It just seems a little too high, too fast. It's still good, though.

The real job that is even more impressive is accross the straight on Vancouver island in Victoria (our capital) It's a smaller city, but the cycling intrests have been well looked after and Stats canada did a study and found 4.8% of workers commute by bike, but the the Capital Regional District have let me know they had done a study and found the levels were at 6.2% of peak hour commute traffic, significantly more than the Stats Can number.

Victoria is the real champion here.

SirMike1983 

Hey if the story is done fairly and it's a balanced story, I think cycling and commuters win. Maybe a few more people dump the car for the bikes, and at least all the readers get a little better-informed on the subject (assuming a fair story). No complaints here.