Four women pose with bike education instructor Lisa Corriveau during a cycling course at HUB Cycling’s new in-person StreetWise Cycling Education Centre at Trout Lake in Vancouver. This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored content section within The Tyee where we highlight contests, events and other initiatives that are either put on by us or by our select partners. The Tyee does not and cannot vouch for or endorse products advertised on The Tyee. We choose our partners carefully and consciously, to fit with The Tyee’s reputation as B.C.’s Home for News, Culture and Solutions. Learn more about Tyee Presents here . In 2022, cycling continued to show its importance and resilience in overcoming the increasingly complex challenges that many Metro Vancouverites face surrounding affordability, equity, the climate crisis and COVID-19 recovery.
Since 1998, a local charitable non-profit organization, HUB Cycling, has been working to remove barriers to cycling in Metro Vancouver to get more people cycling more often, and this year was no exception.
Over the past year, HUB Cycling expanded its efforts to build healthier and more connected communities by providing universal cycling education in schools and to marginalized and Indigenous communities across British Columbia. Over 21,000 children in Metro Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and the West Kootenays received HUB Cycling’s free cycling education course at their schools. Post-course surveys indicate that students are more likely to choose cycling as their primary transportation to and from school after taking the course.
In Spring […]
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