Building bike lanes these days can sometimes seem impossible. With endless political wrangling, public consultations, NIMBY obstructionism and slow-as-molasses bureaucratic processes, it can take forever to get a simple bike lane built.

But rather than wallow in what we can't do, I thought I'd highlight a few examples from Vancouver of bike lanes that were built quickly and more affordably through a process sometimes called "rapid implementation."

Here is the report from TransLink that I used in creating this video: https://buzzer.translink.ca/2022/12/q...

Here's the paper by Nicholas Bagley on The Procedural Fetish that illustrates the phenomenon that seems to condemn so many projects these days: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/...

Ezra Klein interviewed Bagley recently, which is where I first heard of this idea: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/po...

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