“I had raced, and I rode cross-country here and did a few things, but I was more interested in the bigger, bigger, bigger picture….As we started getting a little bit more pull here and there, we started doing the CAN-BIKE stuff. That's where, if you will, I dug in.”

"You might get laughed at the first time, but you back it up with numbers and success and experience elsewhere, you can start to make the case. But if you don't do that, you're never going to get the funding that you need, and it's never going to meet anywhere near its potential."

"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."

"How many times has that happened in an accident? 'I didn't see him, the sun was in my eyes.' Oh yeah? So that was my defence — yellow jacket, yellow hat. I'm out there, I'm loud, you're going to see me, and I'm going to act like a car. And I'm going to take the lane."

"You tell car drivers what's there for them — the restaurants, the gas stations. There's all sorts of information you're told. As a cyclist you're told it's a bike route. Well, I know it's a bike route. Tell me something I need to know."

"People take a very subjective advocacy viewpoint. They forget that what we're really doing. They were arguing from subjective basis. The reality is, cycling for transportation is a product."

"Whenever you see absurdity in legislation, it needs to be changed, that's all. I think motorists and cyclists alike recognize that it is almost impossible to understand some of the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act...the legislation is old and full of bad memories."

"In those days, the real challenge was that the engineering fraternity felt that if people get out and ride, they'll gain confidence, they'll gain the skills that they need, and they won't want to build separated facilities. Intuitively, we all felt this was bullshit. We just didn't have the evidence to suggest otherwise."

"Getting the decision-makers on board — that’s probably the most important. The other one is the public. Encouraging them to cycle more, and accept cycling as a real mode of transportation....because the politicians aren’t going to act unless the public is on-side as well."