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NTA, Cork City Council & Cork Sports Partnership launch Bike Week 2023
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The National Transport Authority (NTA) and Cork City Council & Cork Sports Partnership have today announced details of Bike Week 2023, which runs from Saturday May 13th to Sunday May 21st.
Among the events planned in Cork City are:
- Sunday 14th May Women’s Leisure Cycle to Tramore Valley Park for a free Zumba session.
- Wednesday 17th May Bike Week Lunchtime Cycle, where there will be free lunches, games, music etc.
- Down the Line with a 99, a scenic cycle on the new Blackrock to Passage greenway with a free ice cream on the way.
- With almost a hundred events taking place in the city over bike week there is loads to do for every type of cyclist. With leisure cycles, come and try sessions, bike maintenance workshops, online workshops, podcasts, challenges, competitions and scenic cycles, with events to be held publicly, in schools, workplaces, within disability services, youth groups and across communities.
Bike Week is an annual celebration and promotion of the benefits of cycling with hundreds of events taking place across the country, including family events, heritage cycles, maintenance workshops, and learn-to-cycle events.
All 31 local authority areas are involved in Bike Week with events being organised jointly through the local authorities and local sports partnerships.
Anne Graham, CEO of the NTA said: “The engagement from the local authorities and local sports partnerships has been fantastic again this year and it’s great to see so many events taking place all around the country.
“There really is something for everyone, from the popular family bike festivals and community cycles, to local heritage and greenway cycles to schools events. I’d encourage everybody to get involved.”
Frank Fitzgerald Sustainable Travel Officer from Cork City Council said “Cycling in a fun, healthy, quick and with the new infrastructure, increasingly safe way to travel, each year we are seeing a bigger and bigger Bike Week in Cork City, which indicates the growth of cycling in the City”.
James Kirby from Cork Sports Partnership said “Bike Week is a celebration of cycling with a collaboration between Cork Sports Partnership, Cork City Council and multiple cycling organisations, agencies, communities’ clubs and schools
For more information or book for events are taking place in Cork City, visit www.corkbikeweek.ie
Those taking part in Bike Week are encouraged to share photos or videos to social media using #BikeWeek and tagging their local authority and Transport for Ireland @TFIUpdates.
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