Mastodawn

I just spent some time digging through #BC #Translink's 2025 Local Government Funding Program. Supposedly $27,957,294 was requested for infrastructure spends which included '#cycling' in the short 'description': https://www.translink.ca/-/media/translink/documents/plans-and-projects/roads-bridges-and-goods-movement/2025-local-government-funding-program---projects.pdf

Most of the large-ticket items also said things like "lane widening', 'intersection improvements' which suggests the majority of the spend is on the automobile infra, plus maybe a strip of paint to define a #bike lane which cars will park in.

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Amgine Jan 2

The thing I was after was how much could, squinting hard, be considered to be spending on cycling? And that's a big number.

But Translink spent $1,401,000,000 in 2024. If you assume all that projects I counted were really solely about bike, which we know is not true, it would only be 2% of the pot. Which might be fair - that's about how many #BritishColumbians commute by bicycle.

But that's all a tiny drop in the bucket of BC's road and highway spend.

[EDIT: $1.401B not M]
#BCPoli

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Amgine

E.g., looking at the #GVRD there's the (currently) $1.7B replacement for the Pattulo bridge, $4.15B (in 2021) expanded Massey Tunnel, not counting the Broadway subway project ($2.9B), Surrey-Langley Skytrain extension ($6B), and a cloud of smaller municipal and provincial projects.

Suddenly I am looking at orders of magnitude less spending on cycling infrastructure - and in Vancouver 13% of commuters are on 2 wheels. Less than 0.002% of the $$.

Less than #fairdeal.

3/3 finis

#BikeTooter