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The "local street bikeways" tend to actually be pretty good though. There are plenty of traffic diverters and other calming elements, unlike most North American cities that just paint sharrows and pray for the best.

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Fully agreed. I would feel safe on most of the "green" streets on the map. The intention was definitely not to state that overall Vancouver has a bad infrastructure - it's certainly better than average. But just to clarify that the amount of fully separated lanes is not that high.

Also it gets a bit worse in suburbs like North/West Van, New Westminster, etc.

Yeah anyone who thinks that Vancouver bike infrastructure is bad is delusional - it's not perfect but no city is (especially in north America) and you can get basically anywhere in the city on a safe side street

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