Organized by HUB, Your Cycling Connection, Bike to Work Week is a twice yearly event that is intended to get more people cycling, more often. Langara College has participated in Bike to Work Week since its inception in 2007.
The Langara College Bike to Work Week Team cycled 3,274 kilometres during the two weeks in 2015. The distance is more than that from Vancouver to Houston, Texas and allowed the team to burn 98,233 calories and to keep 709 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Langara College bested our sister institution, Vancouver Community College, for the second time in two years by logging more bicycle trips and cycling more kilometers.
Langara College also hosted two Celebration Stations, one in the spring and one in the fall, along the Ontario Street Bikeway. Visitors enjoyed free refreshments sponsored by Facilities Services and bike mechanic services provided by VanCycle Mobile Bike Shop.
On a dry but grey spring afternoon, 77 cyclists visited the Langara College Celebration Station and another 66 people cycled by. On a sunny fall afternoon, 73 cyclists stopped while another 104 cyclists passed by the station during the two hours it was running.
One hundred visitors to the Celebration Stations also received Langara College water bottles courtesy of Communications & Marketing.
Bike to Work Week is made possible by the volunteer efforts of Peggy Harowitz, Janinah Jansen, Lynn Kitchen, Erik Price (VanCycle Mobile Bike Shop), and Raymond Yeung and the contributions of Facilities Services, Communications & Marketing, burgoo, and Roots Café.
Steve Daniell, Annette Floyd, Leslie Kemp, Jennifer Ko, Kathleen Oliver, and Gayleen Wren were prize winners for logging a bicycle trip during Bike to Work Week in 2015.
Submitted by Fulton Tom
