We have close to 200km of cycling facilities, including: 48 km of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Burlington is a Bicycle Friendly Community (Share the Road Coalition)! We have close to 200km of cycling facilities, including:

• 48 km of bike lanes
• 47.3 km of bike route streets
• 6.4 km of bike lane/sharrow streets
• 11.7 km of paved shoulders
• 52.5 km of multi-use paths adjacent to the road
• 31.6 km of paved off-road, multi-use paths

On-road Cyclists (Per Day)

• 180 on Plains Road
• 111 on Snake Road
• 107 on Waterdown Road
• 112 on Maple Avenue
• 279 on Brant Street
• 148 on Lakeshore Road

Bike Rack Giveaway Program The City of Burlington recognizes the bottom-line benefits of businesses becoming more bike friendly for their customers and employees . This year the City of Burlington is offering a FREE bike rack (valued at $600 each) to the first 15 Burlington businesses that provide proof they have applied for a Share The Road Bike Friendly Business Award. The link to Bike Friendly Business – http://www.sharetheroad.ca/getting-started- p157968

The role of the Cycling Committee is to assist, advise, recommend, and support Council in matters pertaining to cycling in the City of Burlington.

Burlington's Cycling Plan: A City that Cycles Getting around your city should be easy and convenient no matter how you choose to travel, the City of Burlington is creating a new Cycling Plan that will guide the future of cycling infrastructure in the city. Burlington's new Cycling Plan will be a long-term strategy to help strengthen and support cycling in the city. Once completed, the plan will provide a vision for cycling in Burlington that identifies policies, programs and cycling facilities that will help to make cycling an attractive everyday mobility option for a wide range of residents. For more info, please visit www.burlington.ca/cyclingplan