I guess given the data on the people they surveyed, since only 22% were motorists, they were mostly surveying people who would not be negatively affected by a bike lane.

Had they included businesses and a healthier number of motorists, the results of the survey would have been completely opposite. As it was, only 56% supported the lane.

This survey is garbage.

In a democracy, sometimes you are on the right side of the fence and sometimes you aren't. Cyclists are on the right side for once and businesses are making a fuss about nothing by speculating that they will be negatively affected by the bike lane.

I cycle every day to work. Out of the 10 km each way to and from work, I might hop on the sidewalk briefly for two to three blocks, less than 3% of the time, when I sense the traffic is dangerous. If I will be interfering with pedestrians on the sidewalk, I will dismount and walk past them. I’ve been riding before I could even walk for over 40 years and have a second sense about things on the road.

Invariably, a few times each year, a driver or pedestrian will take offense and remind me that sidewalks are for pedestrians. Last week a loud mouth boor in a Range Rover couldn't resist and had to shout out his window at me as I leaned against a light post on the sidewalk briefly, no pedestrians anywhere near. I happened to pass him along Thurlow and Davie and gave him the finger as he was stuck in traffic. His cursing was so loud that it startled everyone around him because his windows were half down as he grooved to his crappy music.

I'm glad to see this city doing what it said it would do in the election. Thanks, Geoff and the rest of council for having the guts to do what you said. Now, if you can do something about TransLink making a mess of our trolley bus routes with the diesel buses on the trolley bus routes, especially the 99 B-Line route, ”¦ that would be great.

Taxpayers R Us,

What is garbage is the suggestion that people's opinion, who frequent Hornby street, is somehow not valid.

Was there an engineering study done on this?

Didn't Mustel just put out a poll making Campbell look like he was on the comeback trail?

I've been polling for 13 years - and would suggest that your readers interpret any poll done by Mustel - in the opposite.

That the city would use Mustel - tells me Gregor might be in trouble.

I could not agree more with Glen. If you want real factual numbers you surrender yourself to the experts at Anus Reid, not Mustel. What I find most amusing in all this, however, is how they are touting "54 percent (of a measly 500 unscientifically polled" as "Strong Support". I guess by that logic, 50% would also be cosidered "strong support". What a joke. This is so obviously a Gregor Robertson initiated poll. Everytime he does something stupid he goes out and concoct a poll or gets his Blogger writing in his favour Sorry if I'm rambling. I am just so fed up with this mayor and what he's doing to our city.

@Taxpayers R' Us

Just because I can, I read the Mustel poll report in detail. What it shows is that the customers on Hornby get there by a variety of means, in this order of size: walk, transit, drive, bike.

Since the only complainers so far are business owners, it seems that they don't know that most of their potential customers (76%) come by a variety of means, not including a car.

It's time that we stopped thinking that downtown Vancouver is just a big suburban strip mall. Everyone doesn't arrive by car, and most don't need to park at all, let alone in front of the store.

I remember reading about Geoff Meggs getting into an accident on his bike a few months ago after he went through a stop sign into the side of a car that had the right of way. Hopefully these designated bike lanes will keep old Geoff safe. As a bike commuter I haven't had problems sharing the road with cars.

500 people surveyed on Hornby Street and only 22% of them were car drivers. Doesn't this show that the majority of people visiting the businesses of Hornby Street are not drivers then? This means that the entire argument about losing parking being bad for business is a farse. By adding the bikelane, more cyclists will be drawn to the street potentially bringing more business. I don't know about others, but I know that I like walking down Dunsmuir alot better now than before, the greenery makes it a much more pleasant place to be.

The bikes may be an inconvience of some sorts but cars are terrible as the exhaust and pollution in the downtown area is to much and drivers are pamerpered as will cut off a crippled in a wheel chair who is trying to get across the street as car makes a turn leaving the person in the wheel chair in a dangerous way is the norm for drivers of BC.