Vancouver’s bicycle revolution about to shift into a higher gear

If you think cyclists are taking over Vancouver’s streets now, just wait until next year when the next phase of the bicycle revolution begins.

That’s when Mayor Gregor Robertson, who pedals to most of his meetings, hopes to put in place a city-wide public bike-sharing scheme to enable people to pick a bicycle at various stations around the city, ride around and drop them off at another station. The plan is modelled after Bixi, a system developed in Montreal that has been a hit and is now being exported around the world.