Celebrate Cycling During "Bike to Work and School" Week May 11-16
May 11-16 is 'Bike to Work and School Week"
For the seventh year in a row, “Bike to Work and School Week” will encourage people to ride their bikes to work and school. During the week of May 11-16, cyclists will be offered snacks, prizes and information about cycling from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at the CTVD Transit Center and on 700 east in front of Aggie Blue Bikes on the Utah State University campus. Volunteers, in conjunction with Cache County Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC), USU Sustainability and Aggie Blue Bikes, will staff the prize tables and offer light bicycle tune-ups at the two locations in Logan.
“The previous ‘Bike to Work/School’ weeks have been a really great time” said volunteer Paul Rogers. “Many generous local business have been big supporters and have offered really nice prizes to encourage people to take advantage of active transportation, to help people get fit, clean our air, have fun and take advantage of the beautiful place we live in.”
In addition to the tables at CTVD Transit Center and Aggie Blue Bikes each morning, other events will celebrate and encourage riding. On Tuesday, May 12 (10 a.m., Logan Transit Center), bike riders are encouraged to ride with Logan Mayor Craig Peterson and to take advantage of some of the new infrastructure improvements that make cycling in Logan more safe and fun. The event gives cyclists a chance to ask questions, raise issues and discuss improvements and needs with Logan City officials.
Russ Holly, senior planner for Logan City, said the route highlights Logan’s bicycle friendly infrastructure.
“Last year’s ride with the mayor was really fun and for this year’s approximately 30-minute ride our route will include streets with bike lanes, shared roadways, shared-use pathways and showcase our newly constructed underpass tunnels at Central Park,” he said.
The “Bike to Work Week” ends with a 50-mile bike ride that celebrates the memory of Caffe Ibis owner and local sustainability advocate Randy Wirth. The bike route showcases Wirth’s favorite rides around Cache Valley. The ride raises money to plant trees and to help improve local bird habitat. There will be food, exhibits and music after the ride at Caffe Ibis.
The events and festivities of “Bike to Work and School Week” occur just following the May 1 kickoff of the “The National Bike Challenge,” an annual nationwide biking contest that promotes biking for fun and transport. The contest aims to unite more than 75,000 bicyclists who are encouraged to ride collectively 35 million miles between May 1 and Sept. 30. “Bike to Work Week” encourages riders to start riding bikes to work and to join the National Bike Challenge to continue riding for the entire summer.
About Bike to Work Week
Bike to Work Week is a national event, organized by The League of American Bicyclists, a group of citizens who love to bike and think more people biking would be a benefit to the city by helping to increase fitness and fun. Sponsors of Bike to Work Week in Cache Valley include Al's Sporting Goods, Joyride Bicycles, J-U-B Engineers Inc., The Sportsman, Sunrise Bicycles, Wimmer’s Bicycles, Caffe Ibis, Bear River Health Department, Cache County BPAC Cache Valley Transit District, Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization, USU Aggie Blue Bikes, USU Dining Services, USU Employee Wellness Program and the USU Sustainability Council.
Contact: Paul Rogers, BTW/SW chairperson, (435) 797-0194, P.ROGERS@usu.edu
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