The City of Johannesburg will be hosting a week of cycling activities from March 16 to 22.
The initiative is aimed at promoting a cycle friendly City.
Events will include cycling activations in Orlando, Diepsloot, Braamfontein and Sandton CBD, a two day seminar on creating best practice cycling infrastructure, a national conference on creating cycling friendly cities and culminating March 22 with a third Freedom Ride, this time between Sandton, Alexandra and Houghton and surrounding suburbs.
This week-long cycling initiative follows from the two successful Freedom Rides held last year which attracted more than 5000 riders.
The City believes reducing the City traffic congestion, making the City more eco-friendly through less carbon fumes in the air and encouraging a healthy lifestyle among its residents, are just three of the important elements that cycling can bring to Joburg.
The City of Johannesburg wants to encourage more residents of Johannesburg to make use of cycle transport and use the cycle lanes that are being built in and around the City.
On February 17 pupils and residents of Soweto will take to the newly constructed cycle lanes in Orlando East.
At lunch hour on March 18, cyclists will take to the streets of Braamfontein, on the newly constructed cycle lanes along the university corridor linking WITS and UJ campuses.
On March 20 #Decongest will be launching the ‘Cycle Fridays’ campaign for Sandton commuters and in the evening Critical Mass will take to the streets in the inner City.
“The City of Johannesburg and its partners expect cycling enthusiasts to come out in numbers throughout the week, but none more so than at the final event of Cycle Jozi Week March 22, known as the Freedom Ride. The Freedom Ride symbolically links up communities separated by apartheid – Sandton and Alexandra – and takes cyclists past the Mandela house in Houghton before going back to Sandton,” said the City.
Registration for the Freedom Ride has already opened and residents can log on to www.freedomride.org.za or on the FreedomRideJozi Facebook page.
