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Will pedals power your vote?

If you're still working out who to vote for in Tuesday's B.C. election, and you'd like to consider parties' stance on pedal-powered transportation, check out the B.C. Cycling Coalition , which gives the parties' statements.

If you're still working out who to vote for in Tuesday's B.C. election, and you'd like to consider parties' stance on pedal-powered transportation, check out the B.C. Cycling Coalition, which gives the parties' statements. In short:

Conservatives: No comment.

Green party: Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Wants more infrastructure, would fund it by taxing everything associated with cars, driving and roads.

Liberals: Totally OK with bikes — and have a $31-million infrastructure plan to prove it. (Though the last project appears to be 2010.) Budget 2013 included $9 million over three years — out of $2.4 billion total for the Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry — for cycling infrastructure.

NDP: See Liberal plan? The NDP would honour the $9-million commitment made in the Liberals' 2013 budget and complete any projects underway. Mumble mumble, bikes are great, carbon tax.

(The Liberals have the advantage of being able to point to actual policy and bike lanes, though that also opens them up to criticism. The Greens can say whatever they want, unfettered by any hope of forming government. Ditto the Conservatives, who seem to feel safe in the idea that rural voters don't ride bikes.)

While you're at it, why not pedal to the polls? The cycling Coalition — by way of their Bike to Vote campaign (also found on their site) — would like to nudge voters to ride as a way of demonstrating their interest and support of policies for cycling. If nothing else, it should be easier than finding parking.