Bike to Work Day: Thursday May 10, 2012

18th Annual Bike to Work Day – May 10, 2012

Come help celebrate National Bike Month and California Bike Commute Week in May with Bike to Work Day. Bike to Work Day is a promotional event to encourage non-bike riders to try commuting by bicycle. Bike to Work Day in the San Francisco Bay Area is primarily funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission with the help of financial donations from event sponsors and volunteers.

There will be over 100 Energizer Stations throughout the SF Bay Area where cyclists can stop by for refreshments and promotional items. 511 Contra Costa has supported cyclists and Energizer Station hosts throughout  Contra Costa County since 2001 using  Bay Area Air Quality Management District funds and the Contra Costa Transportation Authority’s half-cent sales tax for transportation funds.

Want to participate in BTWD, but not sure what to do? Check out our blog post, Bike to Work Day: Are you ready?

Watch the official BTWD video, directed by Tony Welch and features Giju John, Mixman Shawn, Rebecca Dharmapalan and Jaz Mueller:

Contra Costa’s 2012 BTWD Bike Commuter is Curtis Corlew of Antioch.

Read about Curtis at   More >>

Read about how cycling regularly changed one Antioch man’s life. More >>

Bike-Friendly Business Award Nominations are Now Open until March 25, 2012.

Do you know a business that goes the extra mile to promote cycling? Help celebrate the most Bike-Friendly business in the East Bay by nominating a business by March 25, 2012. Find out more about what a “Bicycle-Friendly Business” is here.

Team Bike Challenge

Form a team of 2-5 people and earn points for your total daily mileage. Record your information here! You can even earn bonus points by completing various medal challenges. At the end of the month, the team with the most amount of points wins.

Team Bike Challenge Meet & Greet Walnut Creek

If you are interested in participating in this year’s Team Bike Challenge for Bike to Work Day, come and meet other teams, join a new team, add teammates to your existing team, and find out more about this fun challenge. This Team Bike Challenge Meet & Greet on April 24 will be held at Sports Basement in Walnut Creek at 5:30- 7:30pm. Drinks and snacks provided.

Congratulations to EBMUD for winning the top Contra Costa Team Bike Challenge for BTWD 2011
Hydrologic Cyclers
276 pts / 2,083.4 miles
East Bay Municipal Utility District
Contra Costa

Use the iBikeChallenge App to Keep up the Challenge Going Year Round

Use the iBikeChallenge App to track your total bike commuting benefits, including miles biked, calories burned, gas money saved, and pollution prevented.

511 Contra Costa Interactive Bike Mapper

511 Contra Costa’s Bike Mapper is designed to find flat, safe, and fast routes anywhere in Contra Costa County and the Bay Area. The 511CC Bike Mapper is the only mapper to give you a complete elevation profile for your trip and allows you to choose from nine pre-computed routes.

Bike to Work Day 2012 Energizer Stations in Contra Costa


View Contra Costa County Energizer Stations for Bike to Work Day 2012 in a larger map

Stations listed in alpha order by city. 

A.M. Energizer Stations (scroll down for evening stations)

Antioch

Brentwood

Concord

Danville 

El Cerrito

El Sobrante

Lafayette 

Martinez

Moraga

  •  Intersection of Rheem Boulevard and St. Mary’s Road (along Lafayette Moraga Trail), 6:00-9:00 am, Town of Moraga

Orinda

Pittsburg

Pleasant Hill

  • Pleasant Hill BART Station, 6:30-9:30 am, REI Concord

Richmond

  • Richmond Greenway at Ohio Avenue/6th Street, 7:00-9:30 am, Groundwork Richmond
  • Marina Bay Park at the Bay Trail, 7:00-9:30 am, SunPower
  • Richmond BART near the bike lockers on the upper courtyard, 7:00-9:30 am, Richmond Spokes/ Richmond BPAC 
  • San Pablo Ave at Macdonald Avenue, 7:00-9:30 am, Building Blocks for Kids

San Pablo

San Ramon

Walnut Creek

Evening Stations

Antioch 

  • Lone Tree Way at Mokelumne Trail at Sutter Delta Hospital, 5:00-7:00 pm, City of Antioch

Concord

El Sobrante

Lafayette

Martinez

  • Bottom of Benicia Bridge in Martinez, 3:30-6:30 pm, Richard Anderson

Pleasant Hill

San Ramon 

Walnut Creek 

 

Google Map of Energizer Stations 

The Bike to Work Day website has google maps of Energizer Stations located throughout the Bay Area. Click here for a Google Map of Contra Costa County Energizer Stations. A list of all Energizer Station region maps is available here.

Need help with your route? Check out our selection of free paper and on-line bike maps

Bike to Work Day Materials

Download the BTWD flyer, employer tool-kit information, and Team Bike Challenge information.

Bike to Work Day Photos

The 511CC flickr stream is chock full of Bike to Work Day photos from years past. Check out the  Bike to Work Day photo archives  here. We are also compiling an archive of older Bike to Work Day photos, which you can check out here.

Submit your photos and/or videos of Bike to Work Day to enter for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Peet’s Coffee & Tea! Submissions must be sent by May 18, 2012 5pm PST to be eligible for the prize drawing. Send your photos and/or videos via Twitter or email them to submissions@511contracosta.org.

BTWD in Contra Costa Made Possible by Our Local Partners

Thanks to the following public agencies and companies who are sponsoring Energizer Stations.

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