Commuting

Winter Bike to Work Day is Wednesday Jan. 19

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From Sue Prant at GoBoulder.net

The City of Boulder is celebrating its 3rd annual Winter Bike to Work Day (WBTWD) to reward those who ride their bike all or part of the way to work, school or another destination around town. Ride and receive a free breakfast at participating locations.

Please take a moment to complete the online form. In return for completing the online registration form, you will be entered into a drawing for fabulous prizes including Eldora lift tickets, Smartwool under the helmet beanies, Smartwool socks, Cateye headlights and taillights, Sierra Designs winter biking jackets, and free admission to a Community Cycles mechanics workshop. Use our our WBTWD online registration form.

This year's festivities are presented by the City of Boulder/GO Boulder in partnership with the CU-Boulder Environmental Center and Boulder County Transportation Department.

For more information on Boulder's Winter Bike to Work Day, visit: www.GOBoulder.net

Breakfast station locations (7 - 9 am)

  • Acupuncture Works at 1723 Canyon Blvd.
  • Page Two at 6565 Gunpark Drive in Gunbarrel
  • Rally Sport Health and Fitness at 2727 29th Street
  • Dushanbe Teahouse at 1770 13th Street
  • Community Cycles at 2805 Wilderness place, Suite 100 (just north of the Goose Creek path west of the Foothills Pkwy underpass)
  • CU-Environmental Center at SW Corner Broadway & Euclid
  • Moes Broadway Bagel at 2650 Broadway
  • Moe Bagels on Arapahoe at 3075 Arapahoe

The Orange Ride to Invesco Field

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By Ben Welnak (Twitter at @Bwelnak), with contributions by Piep Van Heuven (Executive Director of BikeDenver) and photos by Jason McRoy


Photo Credit: Jason McRoy

The 1st Annual Orange Ride to the Broncos game on Sunday, October 17th was a success! About 600 riders took advantage of the beautiful Autumn weather and free admission (an $8 value) to the Bronco Barn for food, drinks, and giveaways prior to the Broncos versus New York Jets game by participating in the inaugural ride.

The Broncos Orange Ride was a collaborative effort organized by the Denver Broncos, the City of Denver, BikeDenver, Denver B-Cycle, and the Denver Cruisers as part of the Denver Broncos Game Plan Green Program (see DenverBroncos.com/gameplangreen). The program strives to promote sustainable practices at INVESCO Field at Mile High in partnership with Xcel Energy, Round2, and RecycOil. The Orange Ride became a reality with a press release by the City of Denver and the Broncos on October 11th. Rides were organized into "pelotons" from four locations around the city, including Ginn Mill, Gov's Park, Crimson & Gold Tavern. Leading one of the pelotons to the game was Denver Mayor, John Hickenlooper. His peleton of 50 riders was a great group and showed the true spirit of the event. The other peleton leaders were Ellen Hart Pena, City Councilwoman Carla Madison, ex-Bronco Rich Karlis, and DJ Eliot Lipp.

Walk and Roll & SRTS heading to a school near you

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Wednesday is Walk and Bike to School Day and many schools in Colorado are also having Walk and Roll events encouraging kids to walk or bike to school more often. Heatherwood Elementary just completed their week long Walk and Roll Event with huge success. Here is what the Walk and Roll lead at Heatherwood had to say


Full racks at Heatherwood Elementary

Heatherwood Elementary, located in Boulder, just wrapped up it's fall Walk and Roll Week. With many classes reaching near 80% participation this was the largest Walk and Roll Week the school has ever had. Students and parents were encouraged to walk or ride bikes to school every day this week and were greeted with treats from local sponsors like Moe's Bagels, Rudi's Bakery, Clif Bar, and the Smiling Moose Deli. The culmination of the week's events was an all school assembly where a new bike, donated by Dr. Donovan Martin of Studio One Dental, was raffled off and everyone enjoyed smoothies donated by RUSH. With so many kids arriving to school by foot or bike, bus drivers were feeling a bit lonely this week and car traffic around the school dropped to around 20 cars as opposed to the typical 90+ cars. One Heatherwood teacher commented on the great energy around the school this week and the sense of community with so many families converging on the school by bike. Heatherwood is looking to keep it going by participating in International Walk to School Day this coming Wednesday, Oct. 6th.

Boulder has most bike commuters in the nation

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Boulder leads the nation has the highest percentage of workers commuting by bike according to the American Community Survey

The Daily Camera has highlighted this story this morning. The DailyCamera is also looking to talk with Bike Commuters, contact meltzere@dailycamera.com if that is you!

Other Numbers in the nation

Jud Valeski uses his bike to drop his kids off at Whittier Elementary, then continues to his job with a software firm near Pearl and 16th streets every day of the year, rain, snow or shine. Valeski's 8-year-old son rides his bike
Sean Chambers, head bicycle technician for Dick's Sporting Goods in Broomfield, checks a bike at the East Interlocken Park stop during Bike to Work Day last year. ( DAVID JENNINGS )
alongside his father, while his 5-year-old daughter rides in a bike trailer.

"I want my kids to think about life and about transportation without a car," Valeski said. "Ten or 15 years from now, their memories of going back and forth to school will be memories of biking."

As for his own commute, it's just more practical to take his bike and not deal with parking downtown, he said.

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