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Wayne Hunter is a council candidate in the District of North Vancouver.

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

I am not a regular biker. (Particularly since our mountain bikes were stolen 2 months ago.) Participant in last year's "Storm the North Shore" eco-adventure race.

Alan Nixon is a current Council member up for re-election in the District of North Vancouver.

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

Recreational road cycling 2-3 times per month.

Roger Bassam is a Council candidate in the District of North Vancouver.

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

I don't currently ride although I am considering returning to road cycling as alternative to the high impact sports I currently play.

Dave Sadler is a Mayoral candidate in the District of North Vancouver.

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

Recreational biking every weekend weather permitting. My wife & I cycle about 30km using Vancouver's dedicated bike paths.

Elizabeth Ball is running for council in the City of Vancouver as part of the NPA party.

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

We own three bikes and ride for pleasure whenever possible.

David Cadman is a current City Councilor with the City of Vancouver. He is running for re-election as part of the COPE party.

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

Recreational, weekends, I have football knees.

The first response back was from Peter Ladner who is a current member of Vancouver City council and is running for re-election as part of the NPA party. Here is his response:

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?

I ride to work downtown or at city hall or both 5x a week. Also sporadic trips on weekends, now including some longer road rides for pleasure.

To gather positions of candidates in the municipal election I am e-mailing the candidates the following questions:

1. What type of bicycle riding do you do and how often?
2. What do you think your municipality has done well in cycling and where do you feel improvements are needed?
3. Do you feel more money should be spent on cycling programs and what do you feel the priorities for spending should be?

So far I have concentrated on Vancouver and the North Shore.

The responses I have gotten back so far are:
City of Vancouver Council Candidates

• Elizabeth Ball, NPA
• Fred Bass, COPE
• David Cadman, COPE
• Peter Ladner, NPA

City of North Vancouver Mayoral Candidates

• Rod Clark
• Darrell Mussatto

City of North Vancouver Council Candidates

• Dave Perfitt
• Bob Fearnley
• Sam Schechter
• Marlene Unger

District of North Vancouver Mayoral Candidates

• Jim Cuthbert
• David Dixon
• Maureen McKeon Holmes
• Dave Sadler

District of North Vancouver Council Candidates

• Roger Bassam
• Bruce Crowe
• Janice Harris
• Wayne Hunter
• Sabine Jessen
• Salim Kaderali
• Karen Klasen
• Mike Molson
• Lisa Muri
• Alan Nixon
• Wendy Qureshi
• John Sharpe

If any candidate in any municipality in Greater Vancouver would like to ensure that their position be known who I have not yet e-mailed, please e-mail your answers to these questions to:

I am planning on doing some coverage of municipal elections on this website. My hope is to send a few questions to all of the major candidates to find out their stance on a number of important issues for cyclists in their municipality.

I have some thoughts on the types of questions to ask. However, I would like the input of others on what would be the best questions. I expect that their may be some municipalities where we may want to ask special questions for the municipalities.