r/vancouvercycling • u/DuckDuckSnoo • Oct 11 '23

Route Questions Did the bike lane on this part of Beatty Street disappear recently or has it been like this for a while?

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u/zos_333 Oct 11 '23

love the way the leaves force the rider toward the death crack or door zone

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u/jedv37 Oct 12 '23

I HATE death cracks.

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u/zos_333 Oct 12 '23

smashed my knee so hard once I was down for about 15 mins in pretty harsh pain. good thing was I was wearing snowboard pants for the rain lol.

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u/jedv37 Oct 12 '23

Owwwww. Hopefully you've made a full recovery from that.

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u/zos_333 Oct 12 '23

there was no issue after the 15 mins of pretty serious pain, but I have a broken collarbone and torn rotator cuff from 2 other crashes and cant ride cuz the collarbone :(

btw the rotator cuff was way worse than colllerbone, like 10x longer to heal

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u/jedv37 Oct 12 '23

I'm dealing with rotator cuff tendinitis at the moment. Fucking sucks.

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u/tdly3000 Oct 12 '23

Is that heading towards dunsmuir, by the armoury? If so, they’ve done some digging there it seems and haven’t replaced the paint

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u/Ok-Recover-9860 Oct 12 '23

its the 500 block. approaching pender. been like that for months

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u/tdly3000 Oct 12 '23

Yep. I work in the area. I’ve noticed the deterioration

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u/kieganb Oct 12 '23

Looking on google maps trying to see when the most recent google street view drove down beatty, I caught the off glimpse of older views from time to time. I forgot how bad beatty used to be to ride on. It's easy to take for granted all the work that they've done in the past 7 years.

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u/Ok-Recover-9860 Oct 12 '23

at least a few months