Calgary Cycle Track Pilot Riding A Wave Of Support

After a bumpy start, Calgarians appear to be warming up to the city's cycle track network.  

Tom Thivener, the city's cycling co-ordinator — who not surprisingly uses sections of the 6.5-kilometre network every day, says peoples' views appear to be changing.  

Calgary's cycling co-ordinator Tom Thivener takes a spin down Fifth Street S.W. (Evelyne Asselin/CBC)

He has prepared an update for the city's transportation and transit committee that will be presented to councillors Friday morning.  

Among the highlights, Thivener says bike trips along the five-month old track reached 388,000 between mid-June when it opened and mid-November.

"It's essentially a doubling of the cycling trips on these corridors," said Thivener while standing on the edge of the track on 12th Avenue S.W. 

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