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Bicycle Valet Job Posting Closed

Thank you to all those who applied for positions as Bicycle Valet attendants during the period of the 2010 Winter Games. Applications are now closed, almost all of the applicants except the latest ones will have been contacted by now

BEST Will Operate Eight Bicycle Parking Venues During the Games

BEST is pleased to announce we will be offering Bicycle Valet services for the City of Vancouver at seven sites during the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games with an additional site on Granville Island courtesy of the CMHC.


The locations are:

  • Pacific Coliseum
  • Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre (Hillcrest)
  • Canada Hockey Place (GM Stadium)
  • Stadium (BC Place)
  • Yaletown Live Site
  • Downtown Live Site
  • Olympic Village Station
  • Granville Island

 

A complete list of venues and times can be found on the Bicycle Valet site here, along with lots of other useful information about the Bicycle Valet and how to use it.

We're pleased to be doing our part to provide transportation options. The next month and a half is a terrific opportunity to find out how easy it is to use active transportation--walking, cycling, rolling--for daily activities. So leave the car off the road, use transit when you can, and power yourself through the games.

Keep checking back regularly for cycling, walking, and transit tips.

 

 

 

2009 Transportation Quote of the Year

From bikeportland.org October 30, 2009,

Speaking in Portland, OR, Mikael Colville-Andersen, a Danish planner, marketer, and world-wide consultant on how to "Copenhagenize" western cities, equated the car with a bull running around a china shop and said that to make cycling mainstream, we need to emphasize the dangers of the automobile.

“Someone has let a sacred bull in society’s China shop… We can all agree that there is a bull in the china shop, we can all be realistic and think the bull’s not going anywhere (it’s gotten too big to fit out the door now). So we bubble wrap all the pieces of expensive china and meanwhile the bull just knocked over eight shelves in aisle 9 and took a shit on the floor. It’s strange, we’ve developed this fantastic capacity to completely and utterly ignore the bull.”

... people should do something to “limit its destructive capabilities” such as “castrate it to make it calmer, tie it down, or build a fence around it.”