🚀 go-pugleaf

If you've seen my post in the "Getting from Port Moody to BCIT"
thread, I mention a couple of little-known routes that are quiet,
almost rural, or which allow you to avoid tricky intersections or busy
4-lane traffic.  Does anyone else have any similar secret routes in
this area, or for that matter anywhere else in this province (after
all, this newsgroup is *cycling.bc*, not *cycling.vancouver*)?

Here's one to get you started (but you probably already knew this
anyway):

To get from Lougheed/Brunette to Pitt River Bridge:  Go east on
Lougheed past the Brunette intersection and take the first right turn.
This road curves left alongside the freeway for about two blocks.
Turn right at the stop sign, go under the freeway and over the
railroad tracks and turn left at the first intersection (at Stacy's
furniture, I think).  Follow this road (past Wastech garbage company),
as it winds through the industrial park.  At the CocaCola bottling
plant, it goes under the freeway to the Port Mann Bridge.  Take a
right - you're on the Mary Hill Bypass, without having to mess with
the dumb quasi-freeway on Highway 7.  You can follow this road all the
way to the Wild Duck Inn, where there's a little back lane which goes
around the Inn and lets you avoid the intersection of Highway 7 and
the road you are on. Or:

a couple of kilometers after you've got onto Mary Hill Bypass, you'll
see a road that's closed to your right.  Take your bike over the
barricade and follow the abandoned road.  There's a gravel section
that you have to go over - bear right wherever there's a choice, and
it puts you out on a side street that parallels the Bypass.  Get back
on the Bypass, then take the right turn at the 2nd stoplight into the
industrial park.  Turn left and follow this road through the
industrial park if you want to avoid the traffic on the Bypass.  This
is a good place to practice your sprints - wide road, hardly any
intersections, no driveways when you're headed east, lots of lamp
posts spaced about 75-100meters apart.  This road curves and empties
onto the Bypass.

Have fun.  See ya...


Luis Bernhardt *** Vancouver, BC, Canada *** "Mind the Gap"