{"id":98070,"date":"2022-06-01T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=98070"},"modified":"2022-06-01T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:46:06","slug":"kingston-celebrates-cyclists-all-week-ahead-of-world-bicycle-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/kingston-celebrates-cyclists-all-week-ahead-of-world-bicycle-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston celebrates cyclists all week ahead of World Bicycle Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading up to World Bicycle Day this Friday, the City of Kingston's annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclekingston.ca\/cycling-week-2022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cycling Week <\/a>celebration is running through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUsing a bicycle is one of the best ways to not only be physically fit, it\u2019s great for keeping greenhouse gasses down, it\u2019s a show of prosperity and interest in making our world and Kingston better\u2026H.G. Wells has a saying I'll paraphrase, Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for humankind,\u201d Cycle Kingston Board Member Hal Cain said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In-person activities return this year including: free roll-in breakfasts for those who use sustainable transportation, a ride with the mayor, and in honour of World Bicycle Day,<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Cycle Kingston will celebrate in front of city hall with speeches, and live music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cKingston is one of the best places I\u2019ve lived for cycling\u2026lots of trails, fairly easy roads to navigate, cycling infrastructure makes it a little more comfortable for some people,\u201d Cain added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>June 3 was declared World Bicycle Day by the United Nations in 2018 to recognize the benefits of bicycles to humanity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cycling Week leads into the Commuter Challenge next week, a national initiative encouraging use of sustainable transportation including: public transit, walking, cycling and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFRC interview with Hal Cain below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading up to World Bicycle Day this Friday, the City of Kingston&#8217;s annual Cycling Week celebration is running through Saturday. \u201cUsing a bicycle is one of the best ways to not only be physically fit, it\u2019s great for keeping greenhouse gasses down, it\u2019s a show of prosperity and interest in making our world and Kingston&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":98085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[15070,15058,15004,15057],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98187,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98070\/revisions\/98187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98070"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=98070"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=98070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}