"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."

"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."

"I came to visit my friends in Vancouver, and one of them asked, 'Well can you do your job in Vancouver?' I said, 'Good question!' So then I started looking into what Vancouver had for Bike to Work Week. And there wasn't one."

"Whenever these budgets are tight, this is the stuff that gets cut first. Unless there's somebody that's going to squeak. And if nobody's squeaking about it, nobody's complaining about it, then it's an easy cut."

"A lot of people commute to Vancouver, and they see what Vancouver is building. They come back to the North Shore and the same old crappy bike lanes, and they think we don't want these crappy bike lanes anymore, we want protected bike lanes. They know what's do-able."

"You can't just build a piece of infrastructure that doesn't take you where you want to go, which you'll still see happening in the suburbs. 'Great we got a grant to do this half kilometre bike lane…that doesn't connect to anything else.' You have to connect a network."

"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."