2022 Community Garden Tour with Sustainable Food Edmonton

Join the 2022 Edmonton Community Garden Bike Tour with Sustainable Food Edmonton! Space is limited, so register today!

Explore and learn about community gardens on this guided tour, which includes free lunch. Gardens include Richfield, Lakewood, Sakaw, Concordia and Ridgewood.

Sustainable Food Edmonton is a non-profit charitable organization who initiates and supports projects and programs to encourage the building of community through urban agriculture. They connect communities and kids with their food, how it’s produced, and the planet that makes it all possible.

Message to Membership

Dear Bike Edmonton Members,

We are reaching out to provide an update and highlight ways that you can support your society. 

The board is currently hiring a new Executive Director, providing operational oversight to the society, and beginning contract negotiations with our newly unionized staff. You can support these activities in many ways, such as sharing the posting for the Executive Director position with your networks, volunteering at the shops or during events, and joining the board.

We are accepting nominations to fill vacant board positions starting immediately. Board members would then be elected for a 2-year term during the Annual General Meeting in the fall. Those who are interested are encouraged to fill out the board nomination form (bottom of this page) or contact [email protected] for more information. Board members must be current members of Bike Edmonton.

As a reminder, board meetings are open to the general membership. Our next meeting is on August 22, 2022 at 7pm MT on Google Meet. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by emailing [email protected]. 

Despite some challenges over the last year, the board is committed to the vision and mission of the society and knows that our membership shares our goals. Thank you for your continued support in ensuring that Bike Edmonton remains an important part of our city and lives!

Painted bike lanes and the 101 Avenue Corridor Concept Plans

The Edmonton Bike Coalition is holding a family-friendly celebration & bike protest on Saturday, June 18, at noon at 101 Ave & 75 St. If you’re interested in this project, attend to meet and work together with community members!

The current state of 101 Ave

Concept plans for the 101 Avenue Streetscape project were released in March 2022.

Overall, the plans are a significant improvement over the existing state of 101 Ave. But two significant gaps remain:

  • Between 80-84 St, the bike lane is only a painted lane on the road. We know that paint does not encourage people to bike, and excludes many, including women and children (the City even has a GBA+ policy).

    The City of Edmonton does not maintain painted bike lanes in the winter, leaving an intentional missing link between the all-ages and abilities, all-season facilities to the east (the new 101 Ave protected bike lanes) and west (shared pathways into Forest Heights and Cloverdale, Downtown, and Mill Creek).


    This section is currently identified as an “existing substandard district connector route” in the City’s Bike Plan Implementation Guide, and will continue to be substandard.

    Based on its average traffic volume, the City’s own Complete Streets design standards call for buffered or protected bike lanes.

  • The protected bike lanes also vanish between 74 St to 76 St.

The Problem with 75 Street

Proposed painted bike lanes on 101 Ave.

Terminating the protected bike lanes at 76 St and 74 St is not safe.

Painting bike lanes between traffic flowing in all directions is not safe.

Here is what a similar bike lane in Waterloo looks like:

In contrast, 132 Avenue, which sees comparable traffic volumes, uses a much safer intersection design.

  • 97 St is a major 7-lane arterial

  • 75 St is a major 7-lane arterial

  • 132 Ave has 4 lanes of traffic at the intersection

  • 101 Ave has 4 lanes of traffic at the intersection

Concept plan for the intersection of 97 St and 132 Ave, a comparably busy street with the exact same number of traffic and turning lanes as 75 St and 101 Ave. The separated bike path is maintained in this design.


Edmonton’s Complete Streets Design Standards also state:

Painted bike lanes are generally suitable only on lower speed and lower motor vehicle volume streets... Larger or more complex intersections typically coincide with protected bike lanes or shared-use paths due to the motor vehicle traffic volumes and speeds. These locations require a greater degree of physical protection for people cycling and can include separate signal phasing of multimodal movements, two-stage turn queue boxes, and protected intersections.


If the intersection context (e.g., available space, traffic volumes, traffic speeds) does not make it possible to provide an intersection bike lane design that is suitable for the Design User group (i.e., motor vehicle speeds over 50 km/h or volumes over 4,000 veh/day), an alternative may be to terminate the painted bike lane prior to the intersection and transition via a bike ramp to an off-street bike path or protected bike lane.

On paper, Edmonton’s own design standards, which 101 Ave doesn’t appear to follow, echo best practices from other jurisdictions. NACTO (the National Association of City Transportation Officials) has an entire guide called Don't Give Up at the Intersection. The City of Ottawa recently published their Protected Intersection Design Guide, which includes protected intersections for large, multi-lane roads.

Next steps

Funding for detailed design and construction of 101 Ave hasn’t been approved yet: that will need to come forward in Council’s 2023-2026 Capital Budget discussions. We want to see improvements to this neglected but important part of Edmonton. But we want to ensure that this investment creates actual improvements, and that the money spent on this project reflects Edmonton’s values and desires for a safe, equitable city.

Join the Edmonton Bike Coalition to help advocate for a better 101 Ave. You can join their mailing list, as well as join them in person on Saturday, June 18 at noon for a celebration and protest to build connections and community, and imagine better solutions.


Appendix

Guidelines for selecting facility types based on traffic volumes and speeds (Netherlands & Edmonton)

Chart of Dutch CROW manual selection plan for cycling facilities

Dutch cycle facilities selection plan from the CROW Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic

Traffic Volumes on 132 Ave & 97 St

Traffic Volumes on 101 Ave

102 Avenue Pedestrianization

During the May 31 meeting of City Council’s Urban Planning Committee, the committee voted 3-2 in favour of the following motion:

Moved by:A. Salvador

That Urban Planning Committee recommend to City Council:
That Administration implement a pilot, as soon as possible, of the full closure of the traffic lane on 102 Avenue between 99 Street to 103 Street for the purpose of establishing a pedestrian-friendly corridor and that Administration prepare a road closure bylaw for the full closure of the traffic lane on 102 Avenue between 99 Street to 103 Street for a one year pilot, and work with the Downtown Business Association and stakeholders to utilize Downtown Vibrancy funding for activation.

This means that the motion now goes to City Council on June 7 for further discussion and another vote, this time by council as a whole.

While Council does not normally hear from public speakers during Council meetings (the public normally speaks at committee meetings, like the one on May 31), you can still make sure your voice is heard by contacting your councillor before Tuesday, June 7 to express your support for 102 Ave as a pedestrian-friendly corridor.

Even if you know your councillor supports this motion already, please still write to let them know that you support this. They need to hear voices in support to strengthen their position!

Sample message

Paths for People has created a sample message and some tips on what you can write to your councillor! They have also published an opinion piece in the Journal.

Look up your ward’s councillor by address here.

You can read more about the plan in this CBC story, as well as listen to discussion about it in the latest episode of the Speaking Municipally podcast.

Pedego Guided E-bike rides with Bike Edmonton

This Sunday, June 5th Pedego Edmonton has partnered with Bike Edmonton to offer ebike rentals and guided rides from Café Bicyclette Are you new to e-bikes? Interested in ditching the car for some of your outings? This guided ride is for you. Book your spot online today. https://bit.ly/3wAKWyd

Interested in a one-hour bike rental without a guide? Book here. https://bit.ly/3LJhnQG All proceeds from ebike rentals on Sunday go to Bike Edmonton.

Pedal Poll Edmonton 2022 National Bike Count

Vélo Canada Bikes, the national voice for everyday cycling, is looking for volunteers to help between June 7-12 in its annual national count of cycling! Volunteers will observe cyclists at key locations using a simple phone app.

Sign-up to count here.

Pedal Poll was developed with a team of professionals and academics across Canada, representing a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Team members are motivated to create a bike-friendly Canada and are committed to making cycling more equitable.

Pedal Poll provides opportunities to identify who is cycling and where and work toward inclusion.

Vélo Canada Bikes provides instructions for communities to collect data in the same way so that it can be compared regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Boulders Climbing and Dirtbag Cafe charity climb for Bike Edmonton

Boulders Climbing and Dirtbag Cafe, our neighbours downtown, are raising funds for Bike Edmonton!

Each Tuesday in June from 11am to 4pm, Boulders Climbing charges only $5 to climb. Each month a different non-profit receives all of the funds taken in during that month's charity climb. Bike Edmonton is the featured organization this June!

Volunteers are needed to sit in the Café to answer any questions about Bike Edmonton. You don't have to be an expert of Bike Edmonton services to volunteer. You'll be sent a volunteer role description which includes simple and easy responses to questions people might ask about Bike Edmonton. Sign up here to help.

Pedego E-bike Rentals and Tours

Bike Edmonton is joining Pedego Edmonton for a day of e-bike rentals and guided e-bike tours in Edmonton's French quarter on Sunday, June 5, 2022. Pedego is generously donating all proceeds from this event to Bike Edmonton! You can try out an e-bike and support Bike Edmonton!

E-bike tours are just under an hour. Tours are designed to teach riders how to make the most of their rented e-bike features, while exploring bike infrastructure and the river valley at an easy pace.

We also need volunteers! Sign-up to help with outreach tabling or guiding the rides.

Safe, accessible, equitable: an accurate description of construction detours in Edmonton?

Edmonton has come a long way over the years in how it considers and accommodates people who are walking, wheeling, and cycling around construction zones.

You can generally expect to see, at the least, temporary curb ramps provided to access sidewalks, and usually some consideration for a detour route.

This is a huge improvement over just a few years ago, and we are grateful for how far we’ve come.

A new City report, Active and Public Transportation: Safety, Accessibility and Equity, will be discussed at Urban Planning Committee on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

This report states:

The review of current policies and procedures has identified that they are sufficient to ensure safety, accessibility and equity for active and public transportation and therefore no changes are recommended at this time.

While a lot has improved thanks to the current policies, has your experience been that they are indeed sufficient and succeeding at ensuring accessibility?

Recently, the intervention of three community organizations and two councillors was required to ensure a 30 metre section of the 102 Ave bike route, one of the busiest in the city, was kept accessible during a summer-long (March to August) construction project. The fact that we were notified at all about the project, and given the opportunity to meet with EPCOR, is a positive result of some of the changes in procedures over the past several years. We did not have an opportunity for consultation ahead of time, but we also shouldn’t necessarily need to be consulted: recognizing the importance of active transportation routes and pathways should be built-in to everyday practice.

The 102 Avenue bike route is an example of a highly-travelled bike route, and so it attracted the attention of many advocates.

But less visible projects can still have major and unncessary impacts on people, especially those with mobility challenges. Detouring through the grass may seem minor for some people, but for someone with a broken ankle, or a walker, or a stroller, especially in winter, these barriers can be impassable. The closures of sidewalks and curb ramps, long or unsafe detours, construction signage blocking or narrowing sidewalks: these are tied to the “accessibility and equity” points in the report.

Thankfully, the City does have some policies in place. The Manual of Temporary Traffic Control, for instance, requires that:

  • All bike detours must be reviewed and approved by Parks and Roads Services, prior to implementation, and

  • Cyclists shall be detoured to routes that offer a similar level of comfort, safety and travel distance as the existing facility.

It also states:

  • When developing temporary traffic control, pedestrians and cyclists should be prioritized wherever feasible.

The question is: are you seeing this followed on your streets?

If not, you can register to speak to the Urban Planning Committee on April 26, about agenda item “6.4 Active and Public Transportation - Safety, Accessibility and Equity”.

You can also write to your councillor about your experiences, good or bad! If you’ve had positive experiences with temporary closures, let them know what has worked well.

High Level Bridge Rehabilitation

City Council’s Executive Committee will be discussing rehabilitation options for the High Level Bridge on April 13, 2022.

Administration is currently proceeding with the planning and design for rehabilitation of the bridge combined with active mode enhancements on the upper deck, including:

  • Shared use paths on the upper deck;

  • Widening of the lower east deck sidewalk;

  • Rehabilitation of the north and south approaches of the upper deck; and

  • Maintenance of the streetcar track and provision of safety barriers.

This aligns with the High Level Line proposal, a fantastic proposal put together by the High Level Line Society. The proposal also extends well beyond the bridge itself, stretching 4.3 km and connecting MacEwan University to Whyte Avenue at Gateway Boulevard along the old CPR rail right-of-way.

Illustration of the High Level Bridge upper deck from the High Level Line proposal. Pedestrians and cyclists travel along landscaped paths adjacent to a streetcar on one side.

High Level Bridge rendering from the High Level Line proposal

We’re happy and excited that this may be moving forward now, and grateful for the excellent advocacy and comprehensive work done by the High Level Line Society!

Did you know this isn’t the first proposal for using the upper deck?

Back in 1992, Bike Edmonton (then the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society [EBC]) presented a Rails to Trails concept plan to the City. Part of this eventually became the Ribbon of Steel plan, which built the shared pathway along the streetcar line that now stretches from 105 Ave to Ezio Faraone Park. Some of the south sections were only just built in the last couple years, almost three decades later!

In 1999, members of EBC pitched a Community Greenways concept across the upper deck of the bridge. We raised the idea again in 2016 in response to reports of numerous bicycle collisions along the congested pathways.

Check out the image gallery below for some archival designs and photos (did you know the upper deck used to carry 2 streetcars AND a freight train on three separate tracks?), and inspiration from New York’s High Line.

You can view the reports from the Executive Committee meeting below.

Capital Project Profile for Bridge Rehabilitation - Options



Bike Edmonton will be at the Flying Canoe Volant Festival

We’ll be at the Flying Canoe Volant Pimihaw Waskwayosis Festival tonight, Saturday March 5, 2022, 6pm-9pm, the last night of the festival. Our volunteers have set up a light display and information booth in front of La Cité Francophone on Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury. Come and chat about bike programs, bike maintenance tips, and other cycling supports Bike Edmonton offers to keep you rolling. If you cycle to the festival, you can use our pump to fill up your tires!

Flying Canoe Volant is an outdoor event that includes a walk through an urban forest, stunning light and sound art installations, music, dance, food and more. This festival is sponsored in part by WinterCity Edmonton, who also sponsors our free Bike Edmonton and WinterCity Studded Tire Challenge - 2022. For more information about the festival, visit the Flying Canoe Volant, Pimihaw Waskwayosis Festival website

121 St bike lane detour, 102 Ave bike lane closure

121 St and Stony Plain Road Detour

EPCOR is responsible for relocating all the power, water and drainage utilities to avoid potential conflicts with the Valley Line West LRT infrastructure. This is the second stage of the Valley Line, an urban-style 27 km line that will operate between Mill Woods in southeast Edmonton and Lewis Farms in west Edmonton.

To meet the overall LRT project schedule, the City has requested that EPCOR perform the utility relocations within specific areas along the alignment prior to LRT construction.

Please see attached for information on upcoming work for this project on Stony Plain Road at 121 Street. Hard copies will be delivered to residents/businesses located near the work areas outlined in the attached notice.

  • The bicycle lane on the west side of 121 Street near the work area will be closed. Bicycles will be directed to travel in a single file with vehicle traffic.

  • Cyclists crossing on the west side of 121 Street across Stony Plain Road will be required to dismount and follow the detour to the east of 121 Street.

  • No pedestrian crossing will be permitted across Stony Plain Road on the west side of 121 Street. A detour will be provided.

Construction is anticipated to start on March 8, 2022 and expected to be completed by mid-May 2022.

107 St construction

Additionally, work on 107 St between 102 Ave and 103 Ave will happen from March 7, 2022 and is expected to be completed by early April 2022. No impacts on the 102 Ave bike lane will occur, though 107 St will be narrowed.

 

102 Ave and 116 St total closure

Finally, from EPCOR expects to work at 102 Ave and 116 St from mid-March 2022 until the end of August 2022. This project is drainage manhole construction in the Oliver area.

  • The bike lane on 102 Avenue from 115 Street to 117 Street, will be closed. Detour signs to use 103 Avenue, will be posted.

  • Crosswalk closures on the east and south side of the 116 Street and 102 Avenue intersection. The crosswalks on the north and west side of the intersection will remain open. Pedestrian detour signs will be posted.

This is a significant closure of one of Edmonton's busiest bike routes, for the entirety of spring and summer. We have reached out to EPCOR with a list of questions for clarification, and possible modifications to improve safety, limit detour length, and ensure clear signage and safe detours. Edmonton’s Manual of Temporary Traffic Controls states “Cyclists shall be detoured to routes that offer a similar level of comfort, safety and travel distance as the existing facility”, a high bar given the comfort level of the 102 Ave bike lane.

Prizes, inflating tires, and talking about gear at Elements Outfitters

You’re invited to visit us at Elements Outfitters, 8222 Gateway Blvd, tomorrow February 26, from 11am to 3pm. You can enter into a draw for a chance to win fresh gear from Bike Edmonton and Elements Outfitters! While you visit, we’ll be delighted to talk about getting around by bike, bike maintenance, and dressing for cycling comfort. We’ll even come outside and fill your tires up! You can also take advantage of Elements Outfitter’s winter sale to get beautiful functional clothing with a conscience. Elements Outfitters is a 1% for the Planet company, putting people and the planet over profit.

The Mall

Calgary's Stephen Avenue

Pedestrians walk on Stephen Avenue on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. PHOTO BY AZIN GHAFFARI /Postmedia Calgary

At City Council on December 6, 2021, Councillor Anne Stevenson put forward the following motion (video starts at 9:24:10):

That Administration explore the opportunity to pedestrianize 102 Avenue adjacent to Valley Line LRT and return to Urban Planning Committee with options for consideration.

The motion passed unanimously, and is due to come to Urban Planning Committee on March 8, 2022, at which time the public will be able to speak to the committee (and we encourage you to do so in support of 102 Ave!).

The report will look at a high level at the technical feasibility and costs of potential options. You can read more about the proposal from Paths for People, who spearheaded this idea.

Calgary already has Stephen Avenue, but Edmonton doesn’t currently have any pedestrian streets. But this is not the first time that a pedestrianized street has been proposed for Edmonton.

The Mall (102 St, central view)

In 1968, Edmonton proposed an open air pedestrian mall on 102 St, north of Jasper Ave. The report opens with a focus on how the core lives or dies not by ease of driving, but rather by what happens once people exit their vehicles:

Direct accessibility was, at one time, the principle requirement for a thriving City Centre. In the Edmonton of today however, this is no longer the case. While one may be able to reach the City Centre by car, bus, and in the near future rapid transit, nevertheless there can be very little exchange of goods and ideas (the principle "raison d'etre" of the City Centre) until one leaves his motor car, bus, or train. In the City Centre goods and ideas are exchanged by way of direct face to face contact: Downtown Edmonton can function in no other way. How satisfactorily the City Centre functions directly depends upon how safely, comfortably, and conveniently, goods and ideas can be exchanged.

The introduction continues with this suprisingly figurative section:

Downtown is the heart of Edmonton. As in the human body, a strong heart is an essential element to a healthy body. If the heart of Edmonton is to properly satisfy the needs of its citizens, improved provision must be made for pedestrian activity and movement.

No one denies that, in order to function, vehicles of all types must have access to the City Centre. But at the same time we must never forget that the success of the City Centre depends directly upon the ease with which goods and ideas can be exchanged through the medium of face to face contact. While traffic arteries are essential, the City Centre, as the principle activity core of Edmonton, will die if it is entirely converted to arteries, resulting in very little room remaining for "heart".

The report also mentions plans to turn 101 A Avenue (now Rice Howard Way) into “an urban park — an area considered essentially for passive relaxation”.

The appendix of the report includes a description of a public meeting where, while the reaction was on the whole favourable, “a small number of retailers voiced misgivings as to the effect ot he proposals on their businesses”. A “small but vocal group” of people claimed that, in the similar Sparks Street Mall in Ottawa, “adjacent shopping streets suffered a decline in trade and property values fell”.

“Whilst members of the Planning Department had previously conducted research and responded to the arguments at the meeting”, the group remained unconvinced.

The appendix includes statements from Ottawa officials confirming that property values had increased both on the Mall and in the surrounding area, and none had dropped. They also emphasized that:

its implementation had acted as a "blood transfusion" to the Downtown Area which had been decaying as a result of decentralization, competition from outlying shopping centres and the accessibility of Montreal by special "shopping" train services. The Mall had given confidence to developers interested in the Downtown Area, and had encouraged the development of a large hotel, office and commercial centre nearby.



View the original report here: The Mall: 102 St Pedestrian Mall Report (1968).

And check out the detailed proposal for 102 Ave from Paths for People:

Bonus update: In 1984, the Mayor's Task Force on the Heart of the City: A Blue Print for the 21st Century also recommended pedestrianizing 102 St, this time as a covered arcade!

Elements Outfitters partners with Bike Edmonton through 1% for the Planet

Elements Outfitters is supporting education and advocacy for cycling and sustainable transportation in Edmonton by sponsoring Bike Edmonton through the 1% for the Planet program. We're excited about this new partnership!

Elements Inc. is Western Canada’s leading Patagonia and Filson dealer. They also carry other complementary brands that meet the highest standards of both quality and style. They are proud to be a 1% for the Planet member and actively support conservation and environmental protection efforts. In addition, they are involved and support local communities and youth programs through events and donations. Elements owns and operates Patagonia Banff, Calgary and Victoria, as well as Elements Outfitters at Willow Park, Edmonton (8222 Gateway Blvd NW), Tsawwassen.

We’re looking forward to combining our passion for the environment, for youth, and for the community!

the Spoke in partnership with Ever Active Schools

We’re proud to announce that Ever Active Schools has sponsored this season’s youth earn-a-bike program, the Spoke! Thank you to the Edmonton Community Foundation for funding this initiative.

Ever Active Schools is a registered national charity designed to create and support healthy school communities. They address health and education goals to improve the social outcomes of children and youth in Alberta.

Ever Active Schools provides excellent cycling education through their City Cycling Clinics in the spring, summer, and fall. Youth learn bike handling skills, rules of riding, and how to navigate Edmonton’s cycling infrastructure. Bike Edmonton plays a part in delivering the City Cycling Clinics.

The Spoke is a program of Bike Edmonton. It’s a bike repair and adventure program in which youth ages 12-17 years old inclusive learn introductory bike repair skills and on-road skills with the help of our volunteer mentors. This season, the Spoke combines mechanical learning with Ever Active School's bike clinic and riding curriculum to foster even more self-reliance and joy in bike riding.

Learning both mechanical and on-road cycling skills equips youth with the confidence and knowledge they need to embrace cycling. Bike Edmonton is delighted once again to collaborate with Ever Active Schools to produce programming that fosters activity, resilience, independence, health, and fun for youth!


 





City of Edmonton engagement opportunities

The City of Edmonton currently has a number of important projects that you can provide your feedback on.

101 Avenue Streetscape (50 St to 84 St)

  • Survey closes Tuesday, November 30, 11:55pm

  • This is, overall, a fantastic improvement and a good plan

  • We do have serious concerns about the turning lanes crossing the bike lanes at 75 St, however.

    • They allow cars to make high-speed lane changes across the bike lane, and then block the crosswalks. This is extremely dangerous and will deter people from using this otherwise excellent route.

    • Don’t give up at the intersection

  • We’re not sure if the cross slope (the slope from the centre of the road down towards the curbs) is drawn to scale, but if it is, it is far too extreme, and will cause bikes to slide into the gutter, especially in winter.

  • We are hoping for some kind of all-ages, all-abilities, all-season connectivity between 84 St and 80 St (currently just a shared street with cars), which would connect 101 Ave to the river valley (Muttart, Low Level Bridge, Mill Creek) and the Forest Heights shared use path.

  • Information materials

  • Project website

Snow and Ice Clearing Communications Survey

  • Survey closes Thursday, December 2, 11:55pm

  • Points to consider in your feedback:

    • There is a lack of information on the status of snow clearing for active pathways. The City should provide a map showing the current status of routes.

    • 311 complaints about bike lanes and shared use paths are often closed with the reason “No action required” or “No reason”, without any additional information, even when the paths haven’t been cleared. At the very least, the City should provide more information as to why they close complaints without addressing the issues.

  • Map of all sidewalk and multi-use trails cleared by the City of Edmonton using machinery, including service levels

  • Edmonton’s current Snow & Ice procedure

Rossdale Transportation Network

142 Street Pedestrian/Cyclist Bridge & Terwillegar Drive Expansion

  • Survey closes Thursday, December 9

  • Share your feedback on the preliminary design for the 142 Street Pedestrian/Cyclist Bridge and Stage Two: Whitemud Drive and Interchange Upgrades

  • The proposal includes the bridge over Whitemud Drive in line with 142 St, as well as a new pedestrian/cyclist bridge adjacent to Whitemud Drive over Rainbow Valley and Whitemud Creek.

  • No improved connections through Brookside are proposed, though they had been discussed in previous stages. The City has decided they will revisit the potential for improvements after construction of the bridge is complete.

    • In your feedback, emphasize how important these Brookside connections are for providing all-ages, all-abilities, all-season access to these new bridges.

  • Project website

107 Avenue Revitalization

  • Draft concept plan options are ready and will be available December 1

  • Saturday, December 4: Live online presentation and Q&A (register)

  • Survey opens December 1 - 15.

  • Project website

WinterCity Studded Winter Tire Challenge 2021

Are you just starting to winter cycle and need studded tires? Or did you try to winter cycle, but found you needed support to be successful? We have some studded winter tires to give away and a number of ways you can embrace winter cycling in our winter city!

The City of Edmonton WinterCity Strategy has donated funds to Bike Edmonton so that we can give away a limited number of studded winter tires to help people start to winter cycle!

To be eligible to receive free studded winter tires, you have to

1. Read and fill out the WinterCity Studded Tire Challenge 2021 form

2. be 16 years of age or older,

3. be new or relatively new to winter cycling,

4. do three winter cycling challenges by December 31, 2021, like attending a virtual winter cycling seminar or sending us pictures of you and your bike out in winter conditions. You can choose from ten challenges that are listed on the form. All challenges help you gain the knowledge and confidence for winter cycling! Six of the ten challenges are free.

5. finally, you'll fill out a questionnaire by January 15, 2022 to tell us if the program helped you.

Pretty easy, right? After filling out the form (step 1 above), we'll let you know if you'll receive free studded winter tires. If you are selected to receive free studded tires, you get the tires first, then you'll work toward your selected winter cycling challenges and email us when you've achieved one of your challenges (or when you decide to switch to a different challenge).

This challenge is generously sponsored by the City of Edmonton WinterCity Strategy. WinterCity works with community groups and Edmontonians to enable and promote positive winter experiences. Bike Edmonton is thrilled to work with the WinterCity Strategy to help Edmontonians embrace the colder season!