On May 14, 2014 Citizens for Safe Cycling received the Mayor’s City Builder Award for 30 years of cycling advocacy in Ottawa, Canada’s capital. Citizens for Safe Cycling started promoting safer road conditions in 1984 and has played a leading role in advocating cycling for everyone.
Today, the bike counters that are built in the Laurier bike lanes counted the 1,000,000 bike ride. Last night the counter was 650 rides away from this mile stone number. With over 2000 rides last Monday it is reasonable to assume that the magic number was reached somewhere at the end of this morning.
Our annual Tulips on Two Wheels event during the Ottawa Tulip festival returns on May 10th, 2014. We’ll be present at the canal pathway at Queen Elizabeth Drive at Fifth Ave, just a wee south of the Canal Ritz restaurant.
A spring bike event during a winter storm? Only in Ottawa.
