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"...what this amendment does do from Councilor Boyle is prevent the sort of presupposition that a new Stanley Park bike lane is never going to happen.... two-way traffic will induce more vehicular demand, will change the dynamics within Stanley Park itself,.... this allows us to kind of wait for that promised report back to park board... the parks were going to have an opportunity to look at a new configuration for a bikeway through Stanley Park. ...[the] amendment allows us to keep those options open...In the absence of it, we're pretty much dooming the future of the Stanley Park bikeway to nothing."

"... I'm out there on a bicycle a lot. I'm a vulnerable road user...It's efficient. And I think more and more people are coming alive to that. So when we look at opportunities where we can make it safer and more attractive to use active transportation, I think that's a win. That's a win for our environment. It's a win for our city. It's a win for affordability and it's a win for public safety."

"we actually don't have a regularized pavement marking maintenance schedule and we could probably stand to do one...And certainly as somebody who is a regular cyclist, road visibility, pavement markings is pretty degraded...So that is the gist of the motion."