To promote cycling in Johannesburg, the city will be hosting a whole week of activities from 16 to 22 March 2015.
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 on Sunday 22 March with a third Freedom Ride, this time between Sandton, Alexandra and Houghton and surrounding suburbs.
The City of Johannesburg wants to encourage more residents of the city to make use of cycle transport and use the cycle lanes that are being built in and around the city. The city invites all cyclists, be they competitive or social, young and old, to take part in the various cycle events.
The opening leg of the Cycle Jozi Week will be a 2.5 kilometre activation ride from Fourways towards Diepsloot on Monday, 16 March. The focus of this ride it to highlight safety issues especially for cyclists commuting from Diepsloot.
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 on Sunday, 22 March, 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.
Registration for the Freedom Ride has already opened and more details can be found on www.freedomride.org.za or on the FreedomRideJozi Facebook page.
