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Yes, Calgary is the first Canadian City to rack up 1 million rides on rental e-scooters! Using the city's shared cycling and pathway infrastructure, the popular electric scooters have ridden more per-vehicle, per-day than another other city in the world for one of the providers, Lime. This year has seen Lime, Bird and now Roll join the popular e-scooter rental market here in Calgary, demonstrating that mobility rental is a popular choice for Calgarians. Lime has estimated that these rental rides have eliminated over 250,000 car rides since the program started last year. Such popularity underlines the need for a significant review of the infrastructure provided to the City's pathway users, shared by cyclists, skaters, e-scooters, runners, walkers and of course our ever present geese! In some instances all of…

The City of Calgary has informed us of a Pathway Detour from June 29th to July 3rd, resulting form the ongoing construction work at the Sunnyside Lift Station #1 at 200 Memorial Dr. N.W., near the Calgary Curling Club, in order to improve localized flooding in Sunnyside and on Memorial Drive. The west pathway around the Calgary Curling Club will be closed starting June 29th to July 3rd, in order to install tie-ins to the building. A detour will be in place around the perimeter of the construction fencing in the CPA parking lot (see figure above).  The city has also requested that "For the safety of all pathway users, cyclists are asked to dismount from their bikes while following the detour, especially around the corners. " Further, following the reinstatement of…

As you may be aware, the City of Calgary has been constructing a lift station at 200 Memorial Dr. N.W., near the Calgary Curling Club, in order to improve localized flooding in Sunnyside and on Memorial Drive. However, due to unprecedented rainfall during the week of May 18 (the city received the highest amount of rainfall since 1942), construction work had to be postponed. The paving works will commence on Monday June 15th (until June 19), with the closure of the adaptive pedestrian roadway between 5 ST NW and the CPA Lot 59 for this duration. The city also notified us that "a portion of the site at 1724 Westmount BV N.W. is being used for equipment and material storage for the road and building tie-in works until early July.…

Bike Calgary has issued a Media Release regarding the recent cycling fatality of Cory Meza in Calgary. Click here to view the Media Release.