Smiling bicyclists enjoy Bike to Work Day 2009. Photo: Bryan GoebelSome bicycle advocates have called 2010 the year of the bike. Across the country, cities are seeing growing numbers of people biking, and in the Bay Area tomorrow, that pedal power will be on vivid display for Bike to Work Day.
Last year in San Francisco, the SFMTA counted a record 200,000 cyclists for Bike to Work Day and considering the exciting changes that have been happening on the city's main thoroughfare, Market Street, in the last few weeks, those numbers are likely to dramatically shoot up Wednesday. The SFBC is planning 27 energizer stations across the city. Mayor Gavin Newsom and nearly every member of the Board of Supervisors plans to take part in VIP rides.
“Scores of people will be experiencing the comfort of bicycling in
the newly separated and now green Market Street bike lane for the first
time on Bike to Work Day,” said Renee Rivera, acting Executive Director
of the SF Bicycle Coalition.
“We are thrilled to have Mayor Newsom leading these exciting biking
innovations on Market Street, the city's busiest biking street. This is a
great first step towards a separated bikeway the full length of lower
Market Street.”
Energizer stations are also being set up all over the Bay Area. You can find your nearest energizer station here. The Bay Area Bicycle Coalition has been working on helping to organize Bike to Work Day events in the Bay Area's nine counties.
“Bicycling is growing in popularity all over the Bay
Area and we’re expecting hundreds of thousands of people to choose to
bike to work this year,” said Andrew Casteel, regional coordinator for
Bike to Work Day in the Bay Area. “Biking to work is a fun and easy way
to get in shape, save money and help the environment. Bike to Work Day
is the perfect time to start riding your bike for everyday transportation."
The Streetsblog crew will be out tomorrow documenting Bike to Work Day but we encourage you to send your photos to our Flickr pool. John Hamilton, our Bay Area Streetfilms producer, will be using some of the photos for a Streetfilm on Bike to Work Day that you'll see on Streetsblog tomorrow evening. So send in your photos as soon as you can and have a great Bike to Work Day!
