We don’t get to choose our legacies.
Scan Gregor Robertson’s Facebook post on his decision not to run for a fourth term as Vancouver mayor, and you’ll see a long list of accomplishments. He might rightly be proud of many: fighting climate change; opening homeless shelters; speaking out against discrimination and trying to lead the world’s greenest city.
But two words are nowhere to be found: “bike lane.”
Simplistic it may be, but for many Vancouverites, the way you feel about Gregor Robertson is likely
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