Come to Velo Victoria

This weekend in Centennial Square the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition and a whole host of community partners, including Safer Cycling Oak Bay, are hosting Velo Victoria: a celebration of bike culture. The festivities start up at 7pm on Friday night, with movies and music. Saturday morning comes the kids bike decorating event followed by a bike parade for kids, a place to get your bike fixed up, consignment sales and more. Check out the schedule for full details.

Safer Cycling OB will be there to talk about our upcoming bike master plan, which we are still deep in data collection for. We are still looking for volunteers to help with counting, so if you are interested, drop us a line.

Spencer Road interchange useless

The dirty little secret about Spencer Road interchange being useless is now official. Interchange project manager Tim Stevens told Saanich News that,

There is no functional urgency at this point. The Spencer Road intersection at the highway is still working

Of course, the slow down in the housing market has nearly stopped development on Bear Mountain and Skirt Mountain developments, but even so, this giant white elephant is a lovely reminder of how useless new highway development really is. Now hopefully we can kill the McTavish Rd. interchange before if even starts construction.