Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows
Design multi-use cycle track Lougheed Highway between 216 & Laity
If you didn’t have a chance to visit the Open House last week, you can see the drawing of the project here and the display boards here. The Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Committee sent the letter below to the Maple Ridge Engineering Dept.:Mr. Pollock,Thank you to you and the other engineering team members for taking the time to talk to […]
Cycling: Just try shopping on your bike
The latest column in the Maple Ridge News by our Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Committee of HUB: Your Cycling Connection:Published: February 22, 2013 8:00 AM Our HUB members are quite excited about the wonderful news that we’re finally going to have a safe cycling connection along Lougheed Highway between 216th and Laity streets, now that funding has […]
Bike donations for Rwanda
Russ Carmichael, Director of Operations with the District of Maple Ridge, asked us to post this message, requesting bike donations for Rwanda: The Rwanda PREFER Society of Canada is making a call for donated items to any and all who have shown support for PREFER in the past. We will be collecting items for Cathy […]
Bike rides in Vancouver area
I just added a link to Vancouver Bicycle Rides under “Great Cycling Sites”. If you like to go for group rides throughout Metro Vancouver you can sign up for ride alerts on this site, so you’ll get an e-mail three days before the ride happens. It’s fun exploring different areas in the Vancouver area by […]
The Determination to Keep Cycling
This month’s column in the Maple Ridge News by HUB Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows: Published: January 11, 2013 One of the first people – and one of the most inspiring – I met after moving to Maple Ridge almost seven years ago, is my good friend Betty. I remember the first time I ran into her, on the […]
Spend on cycling close to home
Latest HUB column in Maple Ridge News:Published: December 13, 2012We’ve been warned multiple times in recent months that Canadian household spending is causing us to be ever deeper in debt. But would that warning have any effect on this year’s spending by Canadian families? According to a Bank of Montreal survey, holiday shoppers are planning to spend on […]
Letter of thanks to Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows from HUB
Honourable Mayors, Councilors and municipal staff:On behalf of HUB, Your Cycling Connection (formerly Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition), we would like to extend thanks to the District of Maple Ridge and City of Pitt Meadows for a number of recent cycling & pedestrian infrastructure projects that are visibly and tangibly improving these modes of transportation in […]
Did you think the Dutch already have it all?
Well, think again. Forever searching for further possible improvements, the Dutch are considering installing heated bike paths. Every year during the winter months, thousands of cyclists are injured when they fall on slippery bike paths. During the summer, asphalt collectors would be collecting heat which would be stored underground and used in the winter months […]
Thanks, Maple Ridge, for new paths
HUB Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows’ latest article in The News: Published: November 09, 2012 Metro Vancouver is doing some major work in Maple Ridge, constructing new water mains from the pump station in the southeast corner of Meadow Gardens Golf Course, just north of Lougheed Highway by the mall. As well, a multi-use path will be built on […]
Bikes are for everyone… not just cyclists
A few times a year I have the opportunity to bike in Vancouver. Thanks to the many improvements in recent years that have made getting around on a bike safer and more fun, Vancouver is really on the forefront of the growing popularity in Metro Vancouver of the bicycle as a way to get around. But when […]