Burlington MISSED its game changer opportunity

"Leadership - Is it telling people what they want to hear, or taking them where they want to go!"

How one kilometer of bike lanes sparked a revolution

Heather Deal - Vancouver councillor  - "A couple of years ago we made the decision to close a lane of the Burrard Street bridge to cars and make it a bike lane. That was a game changer. That was the first time we took space away from cars. I was assigned the media, I thought this is the last time I’ll ever get elected because I’m going down over 1 km of 1 lane for traffic."  

Burlington council missed a golden opportunity to choose leadership that would have impacted generations of citizens in a positive, healthy way by voting against putting bike lanes on Lakeshore Road.

Councillor Deal of Vancouver was re-elected and Vancouver embraced and benefited from its bike lanes.