Today marks the first day of the annual Bike to Work Week. This years is two weeks early, to coincide with events across North America. The kick off this morning at the south end of the Selkirk Trestle. That was only the first of a whole host of celebration stations across the city over the next week.
Safer Cycling Oak Bay plans to be at a few of them promoting the bike master plan and asking people what routes they commute by in Oak Bay:
Morning (6:45 am – 8:45 am)
Tuesday – UVic Fountain
Wednesday – Front lawn of the Oak Bay Municipal Hall
Thursday – Royal Jubilee Hospital (uncertain exact location)
Afternoon (3:30 pm – 5:30 pm)
Thursday – UVic Fountain
There are lots of other stations. Check out the complete schedule (PDF).
I will also be heading up to Sidney this afternoon to the celebration station in Tulista Park between 3:30 and 5:30:
I am hoping to get to a few more, just to talk with people and get inspired. Happy Bike to Work Week everybody!
Quick note about the map: It is from the , a user-editable map of the world. Although the map is incomplete, the Canadian government with its Geobase project has released much of its data under a free license and this is now being imported into OSM.
Why is free data important? It allows different views of the map, such as the cycle-specific version embedded above, which shows bike routes, parking and lanes. Sadly Geobase lacks any of this bike-specific data butyou can help.