One might think that a city which could manage a strong -300 world bike ride and a sold out UFC 115 on a day without any incident would be lenient about cycle-friendly traffic changes. That’s a wrong notion to nurture.

Councilors have been receiving messages this month about the pro and con of the new Dunsmuir street bike lane. One of the citizens even urged to take action about the mounting tension between the drivers and the cyclists

Temperature is shooting up before the official opening of the lane and prior to the Critical Mass bike ride that marks an annual low point in the cyclists and motorist’s relations.

The concerned citizen witnessed a non violent but angry confrontation between the driver and a cyclist who got narrowly escaped from a collision.

The citizen remarked skeptically asking the justification of spending $25 millions on cycling infrastructure when cycling forms just 4% of the trips in the city and moreover some cyclists had been found breaking the law. He voiced his question asking that why wont a cyclist share the financial burden of taxes if the cyclist likes to share the road? Why won’t the cyclist pay the parking fees and insurance?

He was found saying that a cyclist should be ticketed when found breaking the law. They shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy a free ride. The time has come to toll the bike lane, He stated.

A cyclist riding by in the bike is always a part of the problem for a driver and not the solution.

Cyclists pay their fair share but they are denied a fair section of the road they should have.’

Cyclists enjoy just 5% of the city roadways that is kept aside, exclusively for the cyclists.

Engineering staff figure on a rough estimate that overall allocation of city transportation infra structure is just 2%for the cyclists where as it is 20% for the pedestrians and the rest 78% is allocated for the cars.