Roy Symons P.Eng. is a Sustainable Transportation Specialist with ISL Engineering and Land Services in British Columbia. His work is focused on active transportation and transit to improve safety and equity in our transportation system. Roy founded Transportation Planning in December 2014 as a place to record his thoughts on how we move around, whether by walking or cycling, transit or automobile, and how urban design influences that.

Contact or connect with Roy at the links in the footer.

Bike Lanes book is now available

Protected bike lanes... They create so much controversy... Yet provide so many benefits... When bike lanes were just paint lines at the side of the road, only the fearless used them... then a few cities started separating and protecting the bike lanes from motor vehicle traffic, and as the network of protected lanes expanded, more and more people began to ride a bike, and more and more cities began to build protected bike lanes... 
​Bike Lanes is a bit different from most urban cycling books. Photographs are central to the book, with each conveying an important principle of bike lane planning or design. Each photograph is accompanied by a short narrative that stands on it’s own, or combines to form the larger narrative in the book. Some photographs feature bike lanes I’ve helped design as a Professional Engineer working in British Columbia, Canada. Some others helped tell the story. All are examples from the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Hopefully you learn something and are inspired to plan, design, build, or advocate for more... or simply just try out some protected bike lanes for the first time...​​
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My Flickr page has over 4,000 images of transportation images organized by city and infrastructure type. It's mostly focused on active modes, and cycling in particular, but also includes various other transportation modes and street elements. My Flickr albums can be found by clicking the button above.
My YouTube page 'Rolling in the City' literally provides videos of me rolling in the city, or many cities, with a camera strapped to my bars, you can experience how other cities and their infrastructure feels to ride, and appreciate the level of comfort that high quality facilities for all ages and abilities provides. A few examples are provided below, and the channel can be viewed by clicking the button above.