Edmonton continues adding more bike lanes to expand its active transportation network. More construction is taking place in the Delton neighbourhood this fall, and while some residents are strongly pushing back against the city’s plans and calling on the province to step in, one local man supporting the move says bike lanes save his family thousands of dollars every year.

“We had a Toyota Corolla, 2001, so basically the cheapest vehicle that we can have, and we were looking at the cost of upgrading to a newer vehicle, a vehicle that we could use as our family started to grow,” said Josh Thompson.

“We just saw how expensive it would be for us to own two vehicles as a young family, and so we went to one, got some bikes instead, and it’s significantly cheaper every year.”

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