“I wanted to make Vancouver more of a place that was safe to ride for people with disabilities or the 8-80. I hadn't got that phrase in my head, but that's what I was thinking - kids and older people. That's what I wanted.”

"When you're doing union negotiations, it doesn't matter who you're working with, that group across the table is your employer and the financial agent, and you have to be able to work together. And you have to be able to talk. Because they hold the cards. And if you're not willing to do it, the only thing that's holding you up is legislation, which can go at any time."

"The wind blows from positive to negative, back and forth, and if you don't have a constant stream of reinforcing messages, the negative ones can start to dominate. Politicians decide where the money is spent. We run the risk of electing the wrong people for the wrong reason, and having big chunks of this undone."

"I'm not a meeting-goer, I try to avoid them at all costs if I possibly can. I went to one of those meetings and it was mostly guys, and they were all really into maps and routes, and that's totally not what I was into. But I was completely won over by the passion and the integrity and the willingness to sacrifice so much in order to make this city a better place to bike in."

"It's important that you can come into Metro Vancouver as a touring cyclist and you know you're going all the way to Vancouver, all the way to Tsawwassen, or all the way to Horseshoe Bay, as if you were driving a car. We don't do that at all for cycling."

"I have activism in my heart but I never thought that it was the only way to get things done. For me B.E.S.T. was my passion and my professional work.  I was trying to shift the direction of B.E.S.T. to a little bit less radical and more mainstream."

"To see the changes that are able to happen with a new local government, to me it was stunning to watch. From my view, from a distance, it's just been incredible to see what's possible."