Google your cycling route in Vancouver
UBC has developed this awesome Metro Vancouver cycling route planner for Vancouverites using Google Maps. Cyclists can search for routes that have features such as minimum elevation gains, minimum air pollution, and minimum distances, ..etc. Pretty cool, I think. I mapped out my route already - from downtown to West Van. My route details include:
- Route length: 7.591 km.
- Estimated time: 0 hr 30 min.
- GHG prevented: 1.9 kg.
- Calories burned: 165.1 kCal.
- Mean NO2 level: 25 ppb.
- Elevation gain: 107 m.
- Mean veg cover: 24 %.
- Bike activated signal:
->> Not sure what this means……. 
What is your cycling route like?
Tags: Carbon credit, climate change, Climate Change Tool, Vancouver
Climate change gadget | flo | 
March 18, 2009 5:00 am
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By Jay, March 19, 2009 @ 11:39 am
That site doesn’t like my address in Victoria so the closest route I got is from Tsawwassen:
Route Information: Route length: 40.479 km.
Estimated time: 2 hr 41 min.
GHG prevented: 10.12 kg.
Calories burned: 880.4 kCal.
Mean NO2 level: 18 ppb.
Elevation gain: 260 m.
Mean veg cover: 26 %.
By flo, March 19, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
it’s still “metro vancouver only” at the time being… i think it’d be a good idea to expand to the whole world!! it’ll take time and a lot of voluntary input i guess.
By Amanda, March 19, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
Flora, that’s amazing! To answer your question, a “bike activated signal” is a signalized crossing for bikes. i.e. the button you press to make the light change colour.
My route from home to work gives me these stats:
Route length: 3.996 km.
Estimated time: 0 hr 15 min.
GHG prevented: 1 kg.
Calories burned: 86.9 kCal.
Mean NO2 level: 22 ppb.
Elevation gain: 35 m.
Mean veg cover: 4 %.
which is pretty much true. Thanks for sharing!
By flo, March 19, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Ahhhhh…. yeah, i have used those bike activated signals!! thanks Amanda =p. It’s interesting how the Mean NO2 level are actually different among Jay’s route (lowest), your route, and my route (highest)! i wonder how they came about that number…..