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Commuting by bike not cost effective?
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"Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" writes: Tom Keats wrote: ... I don't think pulling-over and stopping on the more commercial stretches of Cambie St ever was that easy. Drivers seem to prefer to access those businesses by parking on the adjacent minor streets & avenues, even long before construction of the Canada (RAV) Line began. They might now have to walk a couple of extra blocks to patronize their favourite business establishments. It'll do 'em good.... Isn't this the only business on Cambie Street worth patronizing: http://www.cambiecycles.com/? It's one of 'em -- besides proffering recumbents in both bike & trike configs (OSS & USS) and full-faired velomobiles, they also sell trailer stuff. Especially Chariot[tm] trailer stuff. They usually set up an interesting exhibit out on their sidewalk/patio area. They tolerate normal bikes, too. If you want a $40 pizza (I don't,) there's Flying Wedge Pizza. If you want live flamenco, there's Kino's Cafe (sometimes that place generates more noise than the tunnel construction.) Further upstream there's drool Omnitsky's Deli. Paraphrasing from memory their sidewalk sign, it says: "Montreal smoked meat: buy the sandwich, or take it home by the pound." And then there's the Park Cinema, where you can sleep through boring, mouldering, human-interest movies like Pride & Prejudice, amid an host of little old ladies who don't approve of you[*]. cheers, Tom [*] "Make tea, not love" -- Hell's Grannies / Monty Python -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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Commuting by bike not cost effective?
Tom Keats wrote:
In article , "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" writes: Tom Keats wrote: ... I don't think pulling-over and stopping on the more commercial stretches of Cambie St ever was that easy. Drivers seem to prefer to access those businesses by parking on the adjacent minor streets & avenues, even long before construction of the Canada (RAV) Line began. They might now have to walk a couple of extra blocks to patronize their favourite business establishments. It'll do 'em good.... Isn't this the only business on Cambie Street worth patronizing: http://www.cambiecycles.com/? It's one of 'em -- besides proffering recumbents in both bike & trike configs (OSS & USS) and full-faired velomobiles, they also sell trailer stuff. Especially Chariot[tm] trailer stuff. They usually set up an interesting exhibit out on their sidewalk/patio area. They tolerate normal bikes, too. You mean those odd "horse rider position" bikes? If you want a $40 pizza (I don't,) there's Flying Wedge Pizza. Only if the pizza feeds 6-8 people with normal appetites. If you want live flamenco, there's Kino's Cafe (sometimes that place generates more noise than the tunnel construction.) I can not tolerate loud music [1], particularly the distortion produced by electric guitar amps, PA speakers and whatever the hell is used to make the sounds in hip-hop. Further upstream there's drool Omnitsky's Deli. Paraphrasing from memory their sidewalk sign, it says: "Montreal smoked meat: buy the sandwich, or take it home by the pound." They set Montreal on fire to smoke meat? I know relations between the English and French Canadians/Canadiens are bad, but this is going a bit far! And then there's the Park Cinema, where you can sleep through boring, mouldering, human-interest movies like Pride & Prejudice, amid an host of little old ladies who don't approve of you[*]. No young hotties? [1] Most honorable exception goes to the CSO - can we bring back Sir Georg back from the dead so he can conduct Mahler 8 again? Please? -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Commuting by bike not cost effective?
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"Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" writes: Isn't this the only business on Cambie Street worth patronizing: http://www.cambiecycles.com/? It's one of 'em -- besides proffering recumbents in both bike & trike configs (OSS & USS) and full-faired velomobiles, they also sell trailer stuff. Especially Chariot[tm] trailer stuff. They usually set up an interesting exhibit out on their sidewalk/patio area. They tolerate normal bikes, too. You mean those odd "horse rider position" bikes? Yeah, the ones that don't make you go "Unngh!" as you hoist yer middle-aged weight up & out of 'em, as with too-low patio lounge chairs, and making use of the armrests :-) I'll confess that as my years advance, when dismounting from my normal bike, I have to lean it over more than I used'ta, in order to clear my leg over the saddle. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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Commuting by bike not cost effective?
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nash writes: "Y'know what? It hasn't deleteriously affected traffic at all. All these years, " What? I saw Cambie and know people living there. It is the worst thing that ever happened. Look at all the secondary streets. no such thing as non rush hour and nobody can stop anywhere to go to the stores. Business must love that. Stopping cars on Cambie St is the best thing that ever happened to it. It's actually /good/, what's happening there. It used to be a throughway affording car drivers to get from A to B without the nasty incoveniences of having to, like, stop or slow down to sociably accomodate other people trying to get from their respective A to their respective B. Now, people can actually /Stop/ on Cambie Street, and do business and patronize the shops. It's beautiful. And y'know what? Vancouver never needed Cambie St as it was, and as we always knew it. It used to be just another stupid street to connect Marine Drive with Downtown, so drivers could blow through the city and ignore us, on their merry little ways to Whistler or Horseshoe Bay. Slowing drivers down on Cambie St was a good idea. your next point about gov't bike lanes I like, gotta love people on bikes making their own rules since the powers that be know less than **** about it. I think the Patullo Bridge should be torn down and not replaced with anything. Just get rid of the fscking thing. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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