Pacific Image Home Designs

“Any time I provide more choices for my clients, more ways to make it easy for them to do business with me, I help my business succeed. I would be silly to discourage potential clients who prefer to email me rather than correspond by phone and fax. Yet many downtown businesses discourage the support of a growing market by raising their voices against safety improvements for cyclists. The slightest inconvenience to motorists is seen as a great detriment to their business even as only 1/4 of people arrive downtown by car. Yet the idea of hundreds more cyclists per day passing their door is lost on them.
Few if any of my clients arrive by bike. But cycling improvements help my business anyway. They give my clients another option and improve all their other choices as well. Each cyclist who leaves their car at home frees up more road space and more parking space for those who drive. They improve the experience of those who walk or walk from transit: less noise, less pollution, increased safety.
As cycling downtown becomes safer and more people take advantage of that choice, the liveability of the public realm improves. This draws more people to the core and invites them to stay longer. The benefit to business is obvious.
I welcome more safe, protected bike lanes in the same way I welcomed email. It’s good for business." Ron van der Eerdon