I found this headline:
City to convert 1 traffic lane on Burrard Bridge for bicyclists
The "jist" of it is that cycalists won out against shopkeepers.
the full story is he
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...ike-lanes.html
This seems to be going in the right direction of separating
pedestrians from cycalists. But will there be enough bicycle use to
keep it open?

--
A website is a place, where, when you go there, it does everything
possible to distract you, from finding the information you came there
to see.- E.W.