Despite the many formative events in the cycling advocacy world just before and after Expo ‘86, it wasn’t until the 90s began that the bigger picture began to come together.

“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.”

“My dad took me to see On the Beach the summer it came out, in 1959. It was basically the end of the world, and the last days chronicled in Australia. I was on the edge of adolescence; I don't know, my dad must have thought I needed to have this in my brain. Well, it's been in my brain ever since, of course.”

"That Vancouver is now one of the top cities in North America for protected bike lanes is unbelievable; the substance of what’s happened is pretty dramatic. Public perceptions and attacks is a whole other part of the story."

"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."

"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."

"People had a mindset that when you find a problem, you just have to write a letter to the city, because they probably didn't know about it. And by working with the city, we found out that they had a list of two or three hundred problems, they just didn't know which one was on top."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Every provincial road project should have appropriate cycling infrastructure. At the moment, on 80 km/h rural roads, that means a wide shoulder. That's totally inappropriate."

"Making these commitments incrementally over time, as the network effects come into play, produces a cultural change. And that becomes a reflection of who we are."

"Should enforcement be based on data, or based on the number of complaints? And are they equal? I think the data outweighs the emotion that exists in our city around hate for people on bikes. And that should be determining enforcement."

"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."

"It's a physical practice. It's a direct experience of the world. There's that feeling when you're riding, that you're part of the air, and you're part of the road, and you're part of the city, and it's part of you."