There is actually a bylaw similar to the parking spaces bylaw that specifies how many parking spaces and secure bicycle spaces are required for a commercial building.
Like most of our bylaws, it is often granted a waiver or just simply ignored and selectively (actually never) enforced.

This seems to be another symptom of business in PG cannot function without hand outs. The only difference between business’ in PG and the pan handlers is the pan handlers do not hide their begging.

I think business owners in downtown PG should be embarrassed that they cannot operate as successful, fully law compliant enterprises without sucking on the public teat (trough).

If you have a business, show your pride and pretty up your premises and provide the services for your CUSTOMERS that provide your incomes. Quit being a cheapskate skinflint.

George Street, Bikes, Racks? On GEORGE STREET? Does anyone dare leave their bike outside their business? Theft of bikes, theft of parts, me thinks the mounties will be busier. LOL.

Thank you for your impressive “Jim Carey” impression, You know the one where he bends over and pretends to talk out his…… What you fail to understand Loki is, if you are not already in business yourself you haven’t got a clue what downtown businesses face from various avenues in the city. If it’s not City hall causing you grief for one reason or another, it’s the street urchins and junkies that the RCMP don’t seem to be dealing with. The sidewalks are city property, and not the property of the businesses that line them. The building issues are not those of the tenants but the building owners who are cheaping out and not keeping the property up to scratch. You need to qualify your comments before you splatter one group for an issue that is much wider than you’re aware of. Property management firms who are employed to look after the property for the non-resident landlord are also to blame, they want to make as much as they can off or a property without having to pay to clean it up for the landlord. I could name a few firms, but one stands out as the ultimate loser by a long run. So before smattering a local business that employs local folks and keeps the dollars in the community you might want to think a little harder before engaging the keyboard…..

It is the business that I see, not the owner, ergo, I am calling out the business’s.

My concern is not how tight their operating budgets are. My concern as a citizen and a cyclist is that there is a bylaw that is not being enforced that I “feel” should be enforced.

City Hall keeps harping on downtown improvement. So far my observation has been that when those words are used, then traffic patterns, pedestrian access and just over all ambiance goes in the toilet. I nicer way to put it would be that the service levels and amenities are not in line with bylaws, nor are they satisfactory to me as a customer when I want to enjoy a ride in the open are while not using any fossil fuels and getting exercise to boot. Plus, they have not made any law regarding having a cigarette while on my bike.

Now professional, you have taken my words personally. That tells me that you may be one of the few business operators that do comply with bylaws and encourage good customer service without needing to be supported by external funding sources. So, you are not who I intended my comments for.

Sadly, the ones that I am aiming at will not bother to even refute my arguments, but rather go blithely on with their own little world of a charity operated commercial enterprise, the mooches such as the one you alluded to.

Loki, I understand and see your point of view, fair enough from my perspective.

22k for bike racks downtown?
What a joke.
On any given day there will be no bikes at them.
Looks more like a photo op for the usual downtowners.

Now, there should be a real interest in the deterioration of some of the local bicycle/walking trails … for example, the one on the south side of the Nechako River from the Cameron Street bridge to the Railway Bridge is an unpleasant ride due to tree roots emerging through the ashpalt and river bank washouts … tourists are more likely to try and ride that the trails before considering trying to park a bicycle in the downtown core. One rider’s perspective.

that is a sweet news story. a triple win. absolutely no down side to this.
committee, just please choose a design with some flare, DO NOT copy the
crappy CORA version from VAN. They are unusable. naysayers, grab another
doughnut and kick that lazyboy into overdrive.