“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.”

"Because cycling was given a low priority within engineering culture, it was given to the junior engineers who had just come out of university. They were more interested in actually doing something, and didn't mind ruffling some feathers. And that's helped create that culture change."

"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 was motivated personally as a daily cyclist, and as a transportation practitioner I saw how a lot of transportation infrastructure was contrary to properly accommodating cycling. I felt myself in somewhat a unique position — having an understanding, and being able to talk the language of the transportation practitioners."

"In order to get the provincial government to listen to us, we had to have a community. And at that time, the community was there, but it wasn't drawn together. And so there was no voice."